Dan Lyons is the author of the bestseller Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble which the Los Angeles Times called “the best book about Silicon Valley today.”

Dan is a novelist, journalist, and worked for two seasons as a screenwriter on the HBO comedy series, Silicon Valley. Previously Dan was editor ofReadWrite; technology editor at Newsweek; and a technology reporter at Forbes. In 2006, Dan created The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a blog that evolved into a novel and a cable TV comedy show, Icon, which never made it into production but led to his work on Silicon Valley.