Who recommended Disrupted?

3 people have recommended Disrupted in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Andrew Wilkinson, Kara Swisher and Matej Latin. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Disrupted worth reading?

3 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a mid-career journalist weighing an offer to cover Silicon Valley for a local paper, who needs a reality-check on PR spin, founder performativity, and newsroom–startup awkwardness before accepting the beat — read it now to avoid romanticizing the role.; a product manager at a venture-backed startup who’s tired of performative all-hands, offsite theater, and investor-driven rituals, and wants concrete, sarcastic examples to name those behaviors in team conversations this quarter — useful as a conversational toolkit right away.; a corporate HR lead at a legacy company preparing to vet or partner with a startup, who needs vivid anecdotes and one-line scenes to brief executives about likely cultural mismatches before negotiations start — good to read during vendor evaluation or pre-deal planning.. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when the same sarcastic set-pieces keep repeating and the memoir stops offering new insights; that mid-to-late stretch becomes dull if you need forward momentum; annoying if you prefer measured, data-backed critique — the book trades systematic analysis for anecdote and voice; not for readers who dislike sustained snark or personal grievance narratives; the tone can feel mean-spirited rather than constructive.

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Disrupted by Dan Lyons: Recommended by 3 People

Name: Disrupted
Author: Dan Lyons

An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fadchasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For twentyfive years Dan Lyons was a magazine writ...