Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons (born 1960) is an American writer. He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and a writer at Newsweek before becoming editor of ReadWrite. In March 2013 he left ReadWrite to accept a position at HubSpot.
Daniel Lyons | |
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American author Daniel Lyons | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Massachusetts |
| Education | University of Michigan (MFA) |
| Occupation | Columnist |
| Spouse | Alexandra Lyons |
| Children | Twins |
| Website | https://www.danlyons.io/ |
Lyons began his career with a book of short stories, The Last Good Man (1993), a novel, Dog Days (1998), and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs (2007). Lyons then began writing non-fiction books: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2016), Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us (2018) and STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World (2023).
Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a popular blog and parody of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He was a writer and coproducer on HBO's Silicon Valley and wrote the script for the May 2015 episode "White Hat/Black Hat" while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014.
Dan Lyons authored the book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble (2016) about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot. The book was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Readers responded to the book with numerous letters which inspired his next book: Lab Rats (2018). He has won other literary awards including the 1992 AWP Award for Short Fiction (for his story "The First Snow") and the Playboy College Fiction Award (for "The Greyhound").