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I'd say Disrupted. It's not exactly fiction but the guys at ~~Hooli~~ Hubspot say it is.

Do you think Vistaprint has a higher proportion of bozos than, say, Tripadvisor or Hubspot? I've read some pretty harsh Glassdoor reviews about all of those companies. I guess Hubspot has the honor of having a hilarious book written about their culture.

Evgeny Morozov ha scritto un libro "Silicon Valley: i signori del silicio" riguardo quello che succede nella Silicon Valley e la differenza tra ciò che raccontano di fare e ciò che fanno veramente.

https://www.ibs.it/silicon-valley-signori-del-silicio-libro-evgeny-morozov/e/9788875786885

Purtroppo non l'hanno mai tradotto in italiano, ma c'è un bellissimo libro che si chiama "Disrupted" di Dan Lyons, che racconta quanto sono poco a contatto con la realtà: https://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-My-Misadventure-Start-Up-Bubble/dp/0316306088/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1605187244&sr=8-1

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Somebody read show writer Dan Lyons' 'Disrupted'

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Have you read Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble? I'm only halfway through it myself, but it seems like something you'd find enjoyable.

It's not the first time Valleywag has been "gone". For a time in the early 2010's, it was mothballed, but then started up again (not sure if by Sam Biddle, or an editor before him). They had been rolling in 2013 and 2014, with posts by Biddle and Nitasha Tiku (who moved to The Verge in 2014, and then BuzzFeed in May 2015; Verge editor Mat Honan jumped ship at the same time, according to http://www.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-hires-a-san-francisco-bureau-of-tech-reporters-2015-5 ).

Remember that back in November 2007 (8 years ago already?), a commenter on Valleywag exposed a lot of dirt on the Jeff Gerstmann firing: http://gawker.com/328775/gamespot-editor--on-fired-reviewer At the time, Chris Remo noted that despite being skeptical about the anonymous sources, the details meshed really REALLY well with his instinct about how the games journalism industry worked back then.

In December 2014, after Nitasha Tiku left Valleywag, and Sam Biddle started to skew more over to the Gawker side doing celebrity-chasing articles, former "Fake Steve Jobs" blogger Dan Lyons was announced as the new editor of Valleywag. Pando did a story on him, how he worked at a bro-tastic Boston startup called Hubspot, and how he erased all references to Hubspot from his website: https://pando.com/2014/12/14/dan-lyons-new-valleywag-editor-erases-all-reference-to-marketing-career-from-his-site/ (right now, Lyons' bio page lists that he "was a marketing fellow at Hubspot). For his first big article, Lyons swung for the fences: http://valleywag.gawker.com/predictions-for-2015-1676908555 (I loved reading that article, and I still do. Costolo stepped down from Twitter, there was a different kind of Google shakeup, Carly Fiorina is running for President and is on a track to crazytown and a campaign crash-and-burn, and the Apple Watch sucked, and hackers did something serious: Ashley Madison.)

Unfortunately, what would have been a promising editorship lasted only six weeks: http://valleywag.gawker.com/bad-news-good-news-bad-news-1685629218 . Essentially, an old back injury flared up, but more prominently, he's working on a book about his Hubspot adventure, titled "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble", on track to be released in April 2016: http://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-My-Misadventure-Start-Up-Bubble/dp/0316306088 . Judging from the biting satire of Fake Steve Jobs and his very few Valleywag articles, I think it'll be a good read.

Sadly, Valleywag has been gathering cobwebs since Lyons' departure, with no decent writers. Sam Biddle kept cross-linking Gawker stories that had associations with Silicon Valley. Eventually the farce had to end, and with this RIF, it finally has.

As for the rest of the casualties, I don't know the writers. Kitchenette was a disgusting, depressing rag that kept getting disgustoid-clickbait-linked on the left-hand pane, with all the articles being nothing but restaurant horror stories (I've already heard enough of those from my friends in that industry). Who cares about Flight Club when you have Foxtrot Alpha? Defamer had that Eli Roth article that I liked: http://defamer.gawker.com/who-are-we-to-say-that-cannibalism-is-wrong-eli-rot-1732749802 (which was cross-linked to Valleywag), but Defamer itself is a bit of a liability in the name, and redundant with Gawker in its "journalistic" goal (but kudos to them for interviewing Roth).

I guess that Kotaku isn't being affected too much by this, but I still hope that Patrick Klepek is okay, since he's one of the last REAL games industry journalists, and he's doing a podcast with his wife Katie that I should check out sometime: https://tildeathpodcast.simplecast.fm/

Gawker has to figure out what they're doing for revenue, and how to not be awful, because right now outlets like Vox and Buzzfeed are taking the lead in both fields. It would be nice if they restore a little bit of journalistic honor, but that would take a lot of courage to not simply gun for easy money (not that there is any easy money in the field of online journalism, where the number of people with ad blockers or Javascript blockers is escalating all the time).