2023-01-23
36 分钟Nastaran chats with Dan Lyons, best-selling author and screenwriter for HBO's Silicon Valley, about the Tony Hsieh story and the highs and lows of tech company culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hi, it's me, Nastran.
This is a bonus episode of the cost of happiness, where I speak to author and journalist Dan Lyons.
So Lyons has been an established voice in tech journalism for over three decades now and he's written for the likes of Forbes, a newsweek, and he's also a screenwriter on the hit HBO show Silicon Valley.
Hes perhaps best known for his 2016 book my misadventures and the Startup Bubble.
Now this is a memoir thats based on his time working at tech startup HubSpot which makes marketing software.
In this book, he details his encounters with car like leadership and a frat boy environment and the book really serves as a sharp critique of not just HubSpot, but the tech world at large.
And his next book takes this critique even further.
Its called lab why modern work makes people miserable, published in 2009.
In it, Lyons warns that the oppressive working culture he witnessed in the tech industry is being rolled out to other businesses as well, including some in the public sector.
I really enjoy talking to Dan about his time in the belly of the beast, what we can learn from the story of Tony Hsieh and entrepreneurs like him, and the persistent notion that tech can change the world.
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