The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
I wouldn’t say that I know a lot about ‘Silicon Valley’. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don’t live and breathe this stuff the way most of the guys out there do. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
I was working at ‘Forbes,’ and I covered big enterprise companies – IBM, Sun, and EMC – and it was kind of boring. ‘Forbes’ only came out every other week, so it was not the most fast-paced job in the world. It was very nice, comfortable. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
We like the John Gruber model – he writes some long stuff that’s very thoughtful and analytical, and then other stuff, he just adds a bit of commentary. I like that. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
There’s often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
HubSpot is divided into ‘neighborhoods,’ each named after a section of Boston: North End, South End, Charlestown. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
Hubspot’s leaders were not heroes but rather a pack of sales and marketing charlatans who spun a good story about magical transformation technology and got rich by selling shares in a company that still has never turned a profit. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
GE rolled out a popular TV ad campaign in 2015 explaining why youthful techies should give the ‘digital industrial’ giant a second look. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
If we didn’t have Net neutrality, carriers could do things like penalize companies that use a lot of bandwidth or create high-speed lanes and charge Internet companies extra fees to send their stuff over them. That would give an advantage to big companies and make life harder for startups. Daniel Lyons Read Quote
