Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist, blogger, and screenwriter whose work centers around technology and its impact on society. His forthcoming memoir, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble, is a sharp critique of Silicon Valley culture — and was of such concern to his former employer, HubSpot, that executives at the company tried to obtain the manuscript before it was published. They were caught, which led to sanctions, terminations, and an investigation by the FBI — and raised issues about privacy, trust, and online safety.
In recent years Dan has been been a writer on the award-winning HBO comedy series, Silicon Valley. Previously he was a marketing fellow at HubSpot; editor-in-chief of ReadWrite; technology editor of Newsweek; and a technology reporter at Forbes. Dan also created a blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, from which he developed a critically acclaimed novel, Options.
Dan has written about consumer tech companies (Apple, Google, social media, mobile computing) as well as fusion energy, supercomputers and artificial intelligence. He has appeared as a guest on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business News and National Public Radio.
His three works of fiction are: Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a satire about Silicon Valley that was published to critical acclaim; Dog Days (a novel) and The Last Good Man (an award-winning collection of short stories).