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18. Jul 2018
great story about the reality of many star-up companies
I give this book 5 stars and applaud the author for telling his story to the public. Once I started reading this book I couldn’t stop wanting to know more and what was next. In my opinion, he exposed some things that many in the tech industry and venture capitalists wished the general public never knew.
I could also relate so much to this book in so many ways as I experienced many of the struggles that Dan Lyons had to go through at the time he worked at HubSpot. As a woman, now in my forties, and having an accent, I have experienced it myself and seen it happen to other people around me: ageism, sexism, race discrimination still exists, and does affect your career and personal life. I have been in the Tech industry for 18 years and have worked for very large technology companies and a few start-ups. This book is funny and made me laugh at times, but also made me realize just how messed up these companies actually are, and I can’t believe I worked at one of those companies for more than three years and always thought it was probably me who did not adapt. This company was pretty much a playground for millennials, with open areas, all glass walls, beanbags and modern furniture, ping pong tables, and of course the kitchen area, full of free candies, nuts, cereal, Nutella, sodas, etc. I was about thirty-six or thirty-seven years-old and my first boss there who was in his fifties, he was full of S--- and loaded with stocks from the company that was also working its way to a very very hot IPO. He wouldn’t care the few times I approached him and suggested positive changes that would improve things for the whole team. I had the data and facts that backed me up about the Sales Territories being extremely unbalanced and not giving everyone the same opportunity to succeed and make money, he never cared and never did anything about it, in fact he did the opposite. He would also ask me to work on specific projects in order for me to be promoted. I did and achieved what he asked, but then he would come up with a list of fabricated things (similar to what Lyons mentions in his book) to not let me get any promotion. Anyone who was promoted at that company was a millennial with very little or zero experience as Managers and lacking on certain skills that are key to be a good leader in any team.
"In the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrated." - Brian Halligan, CEO HubSpot.
“Young people are just smarter.” - Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO Facebook.
The ways in which the worst parts of startup culture benefit managers and investors while making workers disposable are particularly scary, and Lyons attacks that issue in a compelling way.
I get that growth is the number one key driver of value if a company takes off and makes massive profits after it has completely disrupted and dominated an industry like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. However, to Lyon's point it was interesting to see that so many companies these days go public without being profitable and many have much shorter average life spans as a result. Case in point: HubSpot was losing millions of dollars year after year, however its investors and founders are now billionaires, same for Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and the list goes on and on.
The part that stroke me the most and kind of made me feel really bad for Lyons and frustrated was the chapter were his boss – who was supposed to be his friend, betrayed him and abused his power by making Lyon’s life miserable for so long. You feel so powerless.
Moving to the one of the fun parts of the book, I enjoyed the chapter where Dan Lyons makes fun at "Dreamforce" and Marc Benioff from Salesforce. I always suspected these things happen, but not at the level Lyons describes in his book, to me is more like a sad but fun thing to read.
In the end, the author leaves soon after he cashes out on HubSpot’s IPO. He got a job at Gawker Media, a blog publisher in New York where Lyons would be writing a blog called Valleywag. He would also get hired back as a writer on the renewal of the HBO series Silicon Valley.