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Event
Dan Lyons in conversation with Joshua Davis
Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's Books
With a special introduction by Silicon Valley legend Guy Kawasaki
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
7:30pm - Seating Area opens at 6:30pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
ONLINE SALES HAVE ENDED. SOME TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR.
"Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble"
On Wednesday, April 13, we're bringing one of the funniest writers around to Kepler's when Dan Lyons joins us to talk with Joshua Davis about his new book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble. Buy your tickets HERE.
At the age of 52, Dan got dumped from his career-long job as a journalist and editor at Newsweek. He was kind of screwed. So he joined a multi-million-dollar startup as a marketing guru, hoping to reinvent himself for the modern age.
It did not go well.
Along the way, Dan Lyons:
Rationalizes that while the work might be ignoble, its not necessarily evil. Were just annoying people, he writes. Sure, arguably we are making the world a little bit worsebut only a little bit. Thats what I tell myself.
Is banished to the companys telemarketing center, a workplace that can best be described as a combination of Glengarry Glen Ross and Dantes Inferno.
Finds himself in a strategy meeting with grown men and women, talking to a teddy bear.
Encounters a headline-generating program that spits out sure-fire marketing copy like Why We Love Cervical Cancer (And You Should Too!)
Is chastised for refusing to participate in Fearless Friday, a weekly event in which employees are encouraged to do anything they wantexcept for their actual job.
Has a Norma Rae moment in which he tries to convince his co-workers that being paid in candy and free soda isnt actually fair compensation. They arent buying it.
Watches the CEO of his company tell the New York Times that Gray hair and experience are really overrated.
At his lowest moment, Dan launches into a proposal to hide $5,000 in Golden Gate Park that then morphs into a plan to shoot the money out of a cannon and finally into a plan to shoot one of the marketing staff out of a cannon and directly into a cubicle to start giving a lecture about marketing.
Finally, Dan was later interviewed by the FBI over an investigation into his employers over wiretapping, hacking and an attempt to steal a draft of Disrupted, an event which ultimately led to the firing of the companys chief marketing officer.
This is a seriously weird and funny story. If you've ever wondered what it's like for a grown-up to work at one of Silicon Valley's mythical "unicorns," you won't want to miss this very funny evening. And hey, it even has a happy ending - Dan writes for HBO's hit program Silicon Valley now.
Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is currently a writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. A former editor at Newsweek, he lives in Winchester, Massachusets.
Joshua Davis is an SF-based contributing editor for Wired magazine, a Stanford alum, and the cofounder of Epic magazine (www.epicmagazine.com). He is the author of The Underdog: How I Survived the Worlds Most Outlandish Competitions and Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream. In 2014, his work for Wired was nominated for a National Magazine Award for feature writing.
Ticket Information:
$40.00 -- Premier Ticket. This includes one hardcover copy of "Disrupted", priority seating, and priority in the signing line
$20.00 -- General Admission. No hardcover copy of "Disrupted," no priority seating or priority in the signing line.
$10.00 -- Student
Admit one. Student Seating. No hardcover copy of "Disrupted." No priority in signing line. Must show student ID.
For those who wish to sit together, please purchase tickets in the same seating area.
The book will be available for pickup, and for sale, at the event.
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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