Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons
American author Daniel Lyons
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Massachusetts
EducationUniversity of Michigan (MFA)
OccupationColumnist
SpouseAlexandra Lyons
ChildrenTwins
Websitehttps://www.danlyons.io/

Daniel Lyons (born 1960) is an American writer. He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and a writer at Newsweek before becoming editor of ReadWrite. In March 2013 he left ReadWrite to accept a position at HubSpot.[1]

Lyons began his career with a book of short stories, The Last Good Man (1993), a novel, Dog Days (1998), and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs (2007). Lyons then began writing non-fiction books: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2016), Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us (2018) and STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World (2023).[2]

Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a popular blog and parody of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He was a writer and coproducer[3] on HBO's Silicon Valley and wrote the script for the May 2015 episode "White Hat/Black Hat"[4] while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014.[5]

Dan Lyons authored the book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble (2016) about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot.[6] The book was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller.[7] Readers responded to the book with numerous letters which inspired his next book: Lab Rats (2018).[8] He has won other literary awards including the 1992 AWP Award for Short Fiction[9] (for his story "The First Snow") and the Playboy College Fiction Award (for "The Greyhound").[10][11]

  1. ^ Volpe, Mike. "Why I Hired the Fake Steve Jobs". blog.hubspot.com.
  2. ^ "Dan Lyons (Author of Disrupted)". 2023-03-25. Archived from the original on 2023-03-25. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  3. ^ "Silicon Valley Full Cast and Crew". IMDB. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  4. ^ "After years of bad blogging and PR hackery, Dan Lyons improbably writes one of "Silicon Valley"'s best episodes yet". PandoDaily. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. ^ "HubSpot's Dan Lyons has the best job (not) in Silicon Valley". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  6. ^ Garner, Dwight (5 April 2016). "Review: 'Disrupted,' a Tech Takedown by Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  7. ^ Lyons, Dan (7 March 2017). Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble Paperback – March 7, 2017. Hachette Books. ISBN 978-0316306096.
  8. ^ Lyons, Dan (2019). Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1786493941.
  9. ^ "AWP Award Series Winners". AWP Awards. Association of Writers and Writers Programs. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Dog Days review". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Daniel Lyons". Simon and Schuster author page. Simon and Schuster. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

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