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A New York Times bestseller that dispels many myths about working in Silicon Valley and the corporate culture of tech companies.

Topic

Startups, IT business, technology companies.

About the book

Working in the IT sector is much more attractive than any other job today. Silicon Valley has an almost mythical halo. Only a select few who know how to transform the technological future of humanity get there. But is this really the case? Journalist Dan Lyons stumbles upon a completely different picture.

At the age of fifty, Dan is fired from his job as a technology columnist at Newsweek magazine and decides to move to Silicon Valley as a marketer. Life throws him into a startup where all the employees are at least half his age, where they wear only corporate orange, and where they take a teddy bear to meetings. Lyons discovers the dark side of this seemingly brilliant sphere and realises that it's not about technology anymore, it's about money.

Who is the book for

The book is for anyone interested in the IT industry, Silicon Valley, and the corporate culture of technology companies and startups.

Why this book

The author dispels many myths about corporate culture and methods of doing business in a startup. He also shows how managers of a company that does not generate any profit line their pockets.

About the author

Dan Lyons is a writer, journalist, and scriptwriter for several seasons of the Emmy Award-winning series Silicon Valley. Lyons has also worked as a columnist for Newsweek, and has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired. He created the popular blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, where he wrote on behalf of the pseudo-Jobs.

Books on similar topics

• «Innovators. How a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks made the digital revolution» by Walter Isaacson, «Our Format», 2017
• «From Zero to One! Notes on Startups, or How to Create the Future by Peter Thiel, «Nash Format», 2017

Reviews of the book

"This hilarious, compulsively readable book reveals the hypocrisy and cult-like pathos that exists within tech giants."
Brad Stone, author of Everything is for Sale. Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and Upstarts. Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for Silicon Valley

"Read this book before you go to work at a startup."