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Does anyone have more context on Dan Lyons?<p>After reading this article, and the one from Fortune[0], and his post on LinkedIn[1], it feels like he's out there scraping together blatant PR for his new book. And it makes me honestly wonder whether he went to work for HubSpot looking for a story to write in the first place... and being a writer for the "Silicon Valley" TV series doesn't really help his credibility in that sense.<p>Disclaimer: I really don't know anything about this story. Something just feels off. Maybe HubSpot really is that bad, who knows.<p>[0]: <a href="http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyons/" rel="nofollow">http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyo...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-comes-age-bias-tech-companies-dont-even-bother-lie-dan-lyons" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-comes-age-bias-tech-comp...</a><p>---<p>Edit:<p>After listening to the interview from @CPLX's response[2] I have to agree, he doesn't seem outlandish or anything. And all of the points he makes about HubSpot's content model being complete spam I agree with. I've definitely never liked interacting with HubSpot as a consumer, that much I know.<p>I feel like in these scenarios he's incentivized to get outlandish PR for his book, so some of the things I'd take with a grain of salt--sentences like, "The offices bear a striking resemblance to the Montessori preschool that my kids attended: lots of bright basic colors, plenty of toys, and a nap room with a hammock and soothing palm tree murals on the wall." But there is probably a lot truth to his story as well.<p>@ghaff also summed it up well: "That said, I find it's a cogent perspective even if it probably shouldn't be taken as literally accurate reportage."<p>[2]: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473097951/laid-off-tech-journalist-joins-a-start-up-finds-its-part-frat-part-cult" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473097951/laid-off-tech-journa...</a>