Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

by Dan Lyons

It occurs to me that spending twenty-five years surrounded by journalists has not prepared me for life in the outside world. Civilians is one term journalists use to describe

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In any place I’ve ever worked, if the boss started bringing a teddy bear to meetings, he would be a laughingstock, forever. There would be stuffed animals everywhere. Mean questions would be asked at all-hands meetings. The teddy bear would be kidnapped and hung from a noose, photographed in flagrante delicto with other stuffed animals, dressed in bondage gear and sodomized by a Smurf. You get the idea.

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