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'''Daniel Lyons''' (born 1960) is an American writer. He was a senior editor at ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine and a writer at ''[[Newsweek]]'' before becoming editor of [[ReadWrite]]. In March 2013 he left ''ReadWrite'' to accept a position at [[HubSpot]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Volpe |first=Mike |title=Why I Hired the Fake Steve Jobs |url=https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/34288/why-i-hired-the-fake-steve-jobs.aspx |website=blog.hubspot.com}}</ref>
'''Daniel Lyons''' (born 1960) is an American writer. He was a senior editor at ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine and a writer at ''[[Newsweek]]'' before becoming editor of [[ReadWrite]]. In March 2013 he left ''ReadWrite'' to accept a position at [[HubSpot]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Volpe |first=Mike |title=Why I Hired the Fake Steve Jobs |url=https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/34288/why-i-hired-the-fake-steve-jobs.aspx |website=blog.hubspot.com}}</ref>


Lyons is the author of a book of short stories, ''The Last Good Man'' (1993); a novel, ''Dog Days'' (1998); and a fictional biography, ''Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody'' (2007). Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote ''The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs'', a popular blog and parody of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] CEO [[Steve Jobs]]. He was a writer and coproducer<ref>{{cite web |title=Silicon Valley Full Cast and Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast |website=IMDB |publisher=IMDB |access-date=21 May 2021}}</ref> on [[HBO]]'s ''[[Silicon Valley (TV series)|Silicon Valley]]'' and wrote the script for the May 2015 episode "White Hat/Black Hat,"<ref>{{Cite web |title=After years of bad blogging and PR hackery, Dan Lyons improbably writes one of "Silicon Valley"'s best episodes yet |url=https://pando.com/2015/06/01/after-years-of-bad-blogging-and-pr-hackery-dan-lyons-improbably-writes-one-of-silicon-valleys-best-episodes-yet/ |access-date=25 April 2016 |publisher=[[PandoDaily]]}}</ref> while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HubSpot's Dan Lyons has the best job (not) in Silicon Valley |url=http://www.betaboston.com/news/2014/09/30/hubspots-dan-lyons-has-the-best-job-not-in-silicon-valley/ |access-date=25 April 2016 |publisher=[[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref>
Lyons began his career with a book of short stories, ''The Last Good Man'' (1993), a novel, ''Dog Days'' (1998), and a fictional biography, ''Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs'' (2007). Lyons then began writing non-fiction books: ''Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble'' (2016)'','' ''Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us'' (2018) and ''STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World'' (2023).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-25 |title=Dan Lyons (Author of Disrupted) |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25025792.Dan_Lyons |access-date=2023-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325133448/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25025792.Dan_Lyons |archive-date=2023-03-25 }}</ref>


Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote ''The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs'', a popular blog and parody of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] CEO [[Steve Jobs]]. He was a writer and coproducer<ref>{{cite web |title=Silicon Valley Full Cast and Crew |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast |website=IMDB |access-date=21 May 2021}}</ref> on [[HBO]]'s ''[[Silicon Valley (TV series)|Silicon Valley]]'' and wrote the script for the May 2015 episode "White Hat/Black Hat"<ref>{{Cite web |title=After years of bad blogging and PR hackery, Dan Lyons improbably writes one of "Silicon Valley"'s best episodes yet |url=https://pando.com/2015/06/01/after-years-of-bad-blogging-and-pr-hackery-dan-lyons-improbably-writes-one-of-silicon-valleys-best-episodes-yet/ |access-date=25 April 2016 |publisher=[[PandoDaily]] |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822050229/https://pando.com/2015/06/01/after-years-of-bad-blogging-and-pr-hackery-dan-lyons-improbably-writes-one-of-silicon-valleys-best-episodes-yet/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HubSpot's Dan Lyons has the best job (not) in Silicon Valley |url=http://www.betaboston.com/news/2014/09/30/hubspots-dan-lyons-has-the-best-job-not-in-silicon-valley/ |access-date=25 April 2016 |publisher=[[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref>
Dan Lyons authored the book ''[[Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble]]'' (2016) about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Review: 'Disrupted,' a Tech Takedown by Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/books/review-disrupted-dan-lyons-fake-steve-jobs.html?_r=1 |access-date=25 April 2016 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The book was a ''[[New York Times]]'', ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' bestseller.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble Paperback – March 7, 2017|url=https://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-My-Misadventure-Start-Up-Bubble/dp/0316306096/ref=sr_1_1 |access-date=17 May 2021

|website=[[Amazon (company)|Amazon]]}}</ref> Readers responded to the book with numerous letters which inspired his next book: ''Lab Rats'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us |url=https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Rats/dp/1786493942/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= |access-date=17 May 2021 |website=[[Amazon (company)|Amazon]]}}</ref>
Dan Lyons authored the book ''[[Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble]]'' (2016) about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Review: 'Disrupted,' a Tech Takedown by Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs | work=The New York Times | date=5 April 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/books/review-disrupted-dan-lyons-fake-steve-jobs.html?_r=1 |access-date=25 April 2016 | last1=Garner | first1=Dwight }}</ref> The book was a ''[[New York Times]]'', ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' bestseller.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble Paperback – March 7, 2017| isbn=978-0316306096 | last1=Lyons | first1=Dan | date=7 March 2017 | publisher=Hachette Books }}</ref> Readers responded to the book with numerous letters which inspired his next book: ''Lab Rats'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite book |title=Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us | isbn=978-1786493941 | last1=Lyons | first1=Dan | year=2019 | publisher=Atlantic Books }}</ref> He has won other literary awards including the 1992 AWP Award for Short Fiction<ref>{{cite web |title=AWP Award Series Winners |url=https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/awp_award_series_previous_winners |website=AWP Awards |publisher=Association of Writers and Writers Programs |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref> (for his story "The First Snow") and the Playboy College Fiction Award (for "The Greyhound").<ref>{{cite web |title=Dog Days review |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-684-84000-0 |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel Lyons |url=https://bookshop.org/books/dog-days-9781451672435/9781451672435 |website=Simon and Schuster author page |publisher=Simon and Schuster |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
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Lyons was a senior editor at ''Forbes'' magazine, covering enterprise computing and consumer electronics. He was also the author of the ''Forbes'' cover article, "Attack of the Blogs", where he wrote that blogs "are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective," claiming that [[Groklaw]] was primarily created "to bash software maker [[SCO Group]] in its [[Linux]] patent lawsuit against [[IBM]], producing laughably biased, pro-IBM coverage."<ref>{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=Attack of the Blogs |date=2005-11-14 |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/1114/128.html |work=Forbes}}</ref>
Lyons was a senior editor at ''Forbes'' magazine, covering enterprise computing and consumer electronics. He was also the author of the ''Forbes'' cover article, "Attack of the Blogs", where he wrote that blogs "are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective," claiming that [[Groklaw]] was primarily created "to bash software maker [[SCO Group]] in its [[Linux]] patent lawsuit against [[IBM]], producing laughably biased, pro-IBM coverage."<ref>{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=Attack of the Blogs |date=2005-11-14 |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/1114/128.html |work=Forbes}}</ref>


Between 2003 and 2007 Lyons covered the SCO cases [[SCO v. IBM|against IBM]] and [[SCO-Linux controversies|against Linux]]. He published articles such as "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets," where he stated that "like many religious folk, the Linux-loving crunchies in the [[open-source movement]] are a) convinced of their own righteousness, and b) sure the whole world, including judges, will agree. They should wake up."<ref>{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=What SCO Wants, SCO Gets |date=2003-06-18 |url=https://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.html |work=Forbes}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=SCO's 'Smoking Gun' Versus IBM |date=2004-08-04 |url=https://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2004/08/04/cz_dl_0804sco.html |work=Forbes}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=SCO Scores |date=2005-01-21 |url=https://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2005/01/21/cz_dl_0121linux.html |work=Forbes}}</ref>
Between 2003 and 2007 Lyons covered the SCO cases [[SCO v. IBM|against IBM]] and [[SCO-Linux controversies|against Linux]]. He published articles such as "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets," where he stated that "like many religious folk, the Linux-loving crunchies in the [[open-source movement]] are a) convinced of their own righteousness, and b) sure the whole world, including judges, will agree. They should wake up."<ref>{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=What SCO Wants, SCO Gets |date=2003-06-18 |url=https://www.forbes.com/2003/06/18/cz_dl_0618linux.html |work=Forbes}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=SCO's 'Smoking Gun' Versus IBM |date=2004-08-04 |url=https://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2004/08/04/cz_dl_0804sco.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040806071223/http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2004/08/04/cz_dl_0804sco.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 6, 2004 |work=Forbes}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=SCO Scores |date=2005-01-21 |url=https://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2005/01/21/cz_dl_0121linux.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050123051357/http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2005/01/21/cz_dl_0121linux.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 23, 2005 |work=Forbes}}</ref>


In 2007 Lyons admitted to being "Snowed By SCO": "For four years, I've been covering a lawsuit for Forbes.com, and my early predictions on this case have turned out to be so profoundly wrong that I am writing this [[mea culpa]] ... In March 2003, SCO sued IBM claiming that IBM took code from Unix—for which SCO claimed to own copyrights—and put that code into Linux, which is distributed free. Last month a judge ruled that SCO does not, in fact, own the Unix copyrights. That blows SCO's case against IBM out of the water. SCO, of Lindon, Utah, is seeking bankruptcy protection."<ref name="mea">{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=Snowed By SCO |date=2007-09-19 |url=https://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tech-oped-cx_dl_0919lyons.html |work=Forbes}}</ref>
In 2007 Lyons admitted to being "Snowed By SCO": "For four years, I've been covering a lawsuit for Forbes.com, and my early predictions on this case have turned out to be so profoundly wrong that I am writing this [[mea culpa]] ... In March 2003, SCO sued IBM claiming that IBM took code from Unix—for which SCO claimed to own copyrights—and put that code into Linux, which is distributed free. Last month a judge ruled that SCO does not, in fact, own the Unix copyrights. That blows SCO's case against IBM out of the water. SCO, of Lindon, Utah, is seeking bankruptcy protection."<ref name="mea">{{Citation |last=Lyons |first=Daniel |title=Snowed By SCO |date=2007-09-19 |url=https://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tech-oped-cx_dl_0919lyons.html |work=Forbes}}</ref>


===Fake Steve Jobs===
===Fake Steve Jobs===
Lyons began blogging as "Fake Steve Jobs" in 2006. He was able to maintain anonymity for just under one year, despite speculation. Before the identity of Fake Steve Jobs was revealed by ''[[The New York Times]]''{{'}} technology correspondent [[Brad Stone (journalist)|Brad Stone]] on August 5, 2007,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stone |first=Brad |date=6 August 2007 |title='Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/technology/06steve.html |via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> ''The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs'' was referenced by numerous online and print media such as [[Engadget]],<ref>[https://www.engadget.com/2007/04/01/real-interview-with-fake-steve-jobs/ Real interview with Fake Steve Jobs, ''Engadget'']</ref> ''[[BusinessWeek]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Search of the Real Fake Steve Jobs, ''BusinessWeek'' |url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2007/tc20070514_768093.htm}}</ref> [[Forbes]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 17, 2006 |title=Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard |url=http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2006/08/who_is_fake_ste.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017215400/http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2006/08/who_is_fake_ste.html |archive-date=2006-10-17 }}</ref> ''[[Der Spiegel]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=SPIEGEL |first=Konrad Lischka, DER |title=Doppelgänger-Blog: Fake-Jobs und wie er die Apple-Welt sieht |url=https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/doppelgaenger-blog-fake-jobs-und-wie-er-die-apple-welt-sieht-a-492587.html |website=www.spiegel.de}}</ref> ''[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Los dos Steve Jobs &#124; elmundo.es |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/07/05/catalejo/1183617787.html |website=www.elmundo.es}}</ref> and [[CNET]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fake Steve Jobs is..., ''CNET News.com'' |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9718940-7.html}}</ref> Fake Steve Jobs ranked 37th in a [[Business 2.0]] article entitled "50 Who Matter Now."
Lyons began blogging as "Fake Steve Jobs" in 2006. He was able to maintain anonymity for just under one year, despite speculation. Before the identity of Fake Steve Jobs was revealed by ''[[The New York Times]]''{{'}} technology correspondent [[Brad Stone (journalist)|Brad Stone]] on August 5, 2007,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stone |first=Brad |date=6 August 2007 |title='Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/technology/06steve.html |via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> ''The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs'' was referenced by numerous online and print media such as [[Engadget]],<ref>[https://www.engadget.com/2007/04/01/real-interview-with-fake-steve-jobs/ Real interview with Fake Steve Jobs, ''Engadget'']</ref> ''[[BusinessWeek]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Search of the Real Fake Steve Jobs, ''BusinessWeek'' |url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2007/tc20070514_768093.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516075157/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2007/tc20070514_768093.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 16, 2007}}</ref> [[Forbes]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 17, 2006 |title=Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard |url=http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2006/08/who_is_fake_ste.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017215400/http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2006/08/who_is_fake_ste.html |archive-date=2006-10-17 }}</ref> ''[[Der Spiegel]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=SPIEGEL |first=Konrad Lischka, DER |title=Doppelgänger-Blog: Fake-Jobs und wie er die Apple-Welt sieht |url=https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/doppelgaenger-blog-fake-jobs-und-wie-er-die-apple-welt-sieht-a-492587.html |newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=5 July 2007 }}</ref> ''[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Los dos Steve Jobs &#124; elmundo.es |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/07/05/catalejo/1183617787.html |website=www.elmundo.es}}</ref> and [[CNET]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fake Steve Jobs is..., ''CNET News.com'' |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9718940-7.html |access-date=2014-07-03 |archive-date=2012-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007161345/http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9718940-7.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Fake Steve Jobs ranked 37th in a [[Business 2.0]] article entitled "50 Who Matter Now."


Previous guesses as to the blog's author included [[Leander Kahney]] of ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' (particularly at some of Fake Steve Jobs's [[Briticism]]s),<ref>[http://valleywag.com/tech/exclusive/the-unmasking-of-fake-steve-jobs-259729.php Exclusive: The unmasking of Fake Steve Jobs, ''Valleywag''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010024923/http://valleywag.com/tech/exclusive/the-unmasking-of-fake-steve-jobs-259729.php |date=2008-10-10 }}</ref> [[Eric Savitz]] of ''[[Barron's Magazine]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fake Steve Jobs, ''Valleywag'' |url=http://valleywag.com/tech/fake-steve-jobs/-266875.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810142750/http://valleywag.com/tech/fake-steve-jobs/-266875.php |archive-date=2007-08-10 |access-date=2007-08-06}}</ref> [[John Paczkowski]] of [[All Things Digital]],<ref>[http://valleywag.com/tech/rumormonger/steve-jobs-meet-steve-jobs-264251.php Rumormonger: Steve Jobs, meet Steve Jobs, ''Valleywag''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811020246/http://valleywag.com/tech/rumormonger/steve-jobs-meet-steve-jobs-264251.php |date=2007-08-11 }}</ref> and [[Andy Ihnatko]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fake Steve Jobs: Andy Ihnatko, faux Apple CEO?, ''Valleywag'' |url=http://valleywag.com/tech/fake-steve-jobs/andy-ihnatko-faux-apple-ceo-278809.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818173910/http://valleywag.com/tech/fake-steve-jobs/andy-ihnatko-faux-apple-ceo-278809.php |archive-date=2007-08-18 |access-date=2007-08-06}}</ref> Another suggestion was that Jack Miller, the webmaster/blogger of the "As the Apple Turns" website, which was seemingly abandoned in 2006, but which is still live, could possibly be Fake [[Steve Jobs]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 January 2007 |title=FIXYOURTHINKING.COM / Need a brain? Borrow mine!: Was Fake Steve Really Jack Miller Of AtAT? |url=http://jackwhispers.blogspot.com/2007/01/was-fake-steve-really-jack-miller-of.html}}</ref>
Previous guesses as to the blog's author included [[Leander Kahney]] of ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' (particularly at some of Fake Steve Jobs's Briticisms),<ref>[http://valleywag.com/tech/exclusive/the-unmasking-of-fake-steve-jobs-259729.php Exclusive: The unmasking of Fake Steve Jobs, ''Valleywag''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010024923/http://valleywag.com/tech/exclusive/the-unmasking-of-fake-steve-jobs-259729.php |date=2008-10-10 }}</ref> Eric Savitz of ''[[Barron's Magazine]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fake Steve Jobs, ''Valleywag'' |url=http://valleywag.com/tech/fake-steve-jobs/-266875.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810142750/http://valleywag.com/tech/fake-steve-jobs/-266875.php |archive-date=2007-08-10 |access-date=2007-08-06}}</ref> John Paczkowski of [[All Things Digital]],<ref>[http://valleywag.com/tech/rumormonger/steve-jobs-meet-steve-jobs-264251.php Rumormonger: Steve Jobs, meet Steve Jobs, ''Valleywag''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811020246/http://valleywag.com/tech/rumormonger/steve-jobs-meet-steve-jobs-264251.php |date=2007-08-11 }}</ref> and [[Andy Ihnatko]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fake Steve Jobs: Andy Ihnatko, faux Apple CEO?, ''Valleywag'' |url=http://valleywag.com/tech/fake-steve-jobs/andy-ihnatko-faux-apple-ceo-278809.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818173910/http://valleywag.com/tech/fake-steve-jobs/andy-ihnatko-faux-apple-ceo-278809.php |archive-date=2007-08-18 |access-date=2007-08-06}}</ref> Another suggestion was that Jack Miller, the webmaster/blogger of the "As the Apple Turns" website, which was seemingly abandoned in 2006, but which is still live, could possibly be Fake [[Steve Jobs]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 January 2007 |title=FIXYOURTHINKING.COM / Need a brain? Borrow mine!: Was Fake Steve Really Jack Miller Of AtAT? |url=http://jackwhispers.blogspot.com/2007/01/was-fake-steve-really-jack-miller-of.html}}</ref>


At ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'''s "D: All Things Digital" technology conference, the real [[Steve Jobs]] was quoted as saying, "I have read a few of the Fake Steve Jobs things recently and I think they’re pretty funny."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jobs on YouTube Weirdness, Windows Love and "Fake Steve", ''The Wall Street Journal'' |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/dnotebook/2007/05/30/jobs-on-youtube-weirdness-windows-love-and-fake-steve/}}</ref> During a later joint interview, [[Bill Gates]] quipped that he was not Fake Steve Jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 31, 2007 |title=D Transcript: Gates, Jobs Reminisce |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118063909956120356 |via=www.wsj.com}}</ref>
At ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'''s "D: All Things Digital" technology conference, the real [[Steve Jobs]] was quoted as saying, "I have read a few of the Fake Steve Jobs things recently and I think they’re pretty funny."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jobs on YouTube Weirdness, Windows Love and "Fake Steve", ''The Wall Street Journal'' |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/dnotebook/2007/05/30/jobs-on-youtube-weirdness-windows-love-and-fake-steve/}}</ref> During a later joint interview, [[Bill Gates]] quipped that he was not Fake Steve Jobs.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 31, 2007 |title=D Transcript: Gates, Jobs Reminisce |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118063909956120356 |via=www.wsj.com}}</ref>
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In October 2007 Lyons released the book ''[[Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody]]'', under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs". Although based largely upon previous material published on ''The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs'' blog, the book creates a more cohesive narrative focusing especially on the [[Steve Jobs#Stock options backdating issue|stock options backdating scandal]] looming over Steve Jobs in late 2006 and early 2007.
In October 2007 Lyons released the book ''[[Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody]]'', under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs". Although based largely upon previous material published on ''The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs'' blog, the book creates a more cohesive narrative focusing especially on the [[Steve Jobs#Stock options backdating issue|stock options backdating scandal]] looming over Steve Jobs in late 2006 and early 2007.


On July 9, 2008, Lyons announced on the Fake Steve blog<ref>{{Cite web |title=Redirecting |url=http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-am-so-friggin-high-its-not-funny.html |website=fakesteve.blogspot.com}}</ref> that he would be launching a new site under his own name and discontinuing writing in a faux-Jobs style. He later announced his decision to place the Fake Steve blog on indefinite hiatus was out of respect for the real Steve Jobs' health:
On July 9, 2008, Lyons announced on the Fake Steve blog<ref>{{Cite web |title=Redirecting |url=http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-am-so-friggin-high-its-not-funny.html |website=fakesteve.blogspot.com |access-date=2008-07-10 |archive-date=2008-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080712044641/http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-am-so-friggin-high-its-not-funny.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> that he would be launching a new site under his own name and discontinuing writing in a faux-Jobs style. He later announced his decision to place the Fake Steve blog on indefinite hiatus was out of respect for the real Steve Jobs' health:


<blockquote>"I began hearing a few months ago that Steve Jobs was very sick. I wasn't sure if these rumors were true or not. Then I saw how he looked at [the [[Worldwide Developers Conference]] in early June, 2008] and it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I just couldn't carry on."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jade |first=Charles |date=July 25, 2008 |title=The Real Dan Lyons on Fake Steve Jobs (and why he left) |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/07/the-real-dan-lyons-on-fake-steve-jobs-and-why-he-left/ |website=Ars Technica}}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>"I began hearing a few months ago that Steve Jobs was very sick. I wasn't sure if these rumors were true or not. Then I saw how he looked at [the [[Worldwide Developers Conference]] in early June, 2008] and it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I just couldn't carry on."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jade |first=Charles |date=July 25, 2008 |title=The Real Dan Lyons on Fake Steve Jobs (and why he left) |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/07/the-real-dan-lyons-on-fake-steve-jobs-and-why-he-left/ |website=Ars Technica}}</ref></blockquote>
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* [http://realdanlyons.com/ Real Dan Lyons Web Site]
* [http://realdanlyons.com/ Real Dan Lyons Web Site]
* [http://floatingpoint.wordpress.com/ Personal blog Dan Lyons]
* [http://floatingpoint.wordpress.com/ Personal blog Dan Lyons]
* [http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/fake-steve-jobs-visits-microsoft/ A video interview of Daniel Lyons about Fake Steve Jobs on Microsoft's Channel 10]
* [http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/fake-steve-jobs-visits-microsoft/ A video interview of Daniel Lyons about Fake Steve Jobs on Microsoft's Channel 10] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028062242/http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/fake-steve-jobs-visits-microsoft/ |date=2007-10-28 }}
* [http://www.wallstrip.com/2007/10/28/10-28-07-wallstrip-chat-dan-lyons-extended-version/ Unabridged interview with Lyons by Wallstrip's Lindsay Campbell on the release of his book, ''Options,'' October 28, 2007]
* [http://www.wallstrip.com/2007/10/28/10-28-07-wallstrip-chat-dan-lyons-extended-version/ Unabridged interview with Lyons by Wallstrip's Lindsay Campbell on the release of his book, ''Options,'' October 28, 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230093129/http://www.wallstrip.com/2007/10/28/10-28-07-wallstrip-chat-dan-lyons-extended-version/ |date=December 30, 2007 }}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpxX9vqr5c Daniel Lyons speaks at Google about his blog, his book, and the real Steve Jobs]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpxX9vqr5c Daniel Lyons speaks at Google about his blog, his book, and the real Steve Jobs]
* [http://fora.tv/2007/11/04/Daniel_Lyons_aka_Fake_Steve_Jobs Daniel Lyons Speaks at Cody Books in Berkeley, CA]
* [http://fora.tv/2007/11/04/Daniel_Lyons_aka_Fake_Steve_Jobs Daniel Lyons Speaks at Cody Books in Berkeley, CA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130203343/http://fora.tv/2007/11/04/Daniel_Lyons_aka_Fake_Steve_Jobs |date=2007-11-30 }}
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2195290/ Farewell, Fake Steve Jobs - by Stanley Bing for Slate Magazine]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2195290/ Farewell, Fake Steve Jobs - by Stanley Bing for Slate Magazine]
* [http://www.oklahomalegalgroup.com/oklahoma-criminal-defense/from-tech-news-to-silicon-valley-an-interview-with-writer-dan-lyons/ Dan Lyons Silicon Valley Law Interview]
* [http://www.oklahomalegalgroup.com/oklahoma-criminal-defense/from-tech-news-to-silicon-valley-an-interview-with-writer-dan-lyons/ Dan Lyons Silicon Valley Law Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610113157/http://www.oklahomalegalgroup.com/oklahoma-criminal-defense/from-tech-news-to-silicon-valley-an-interview-with-writer-dan-lyons/ |date=2016-06-10 }}
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/interview-disrupted-author-dan-lyons-paul-vogelzang/ Dan Lyons LinkedIn Audio Interview]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/interview-disrupted-author-dan-lyons-paul-vogelzang/ Dan Lyons LinkedIn Audio Interview]
* [http://www.twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/249?autostart=false/ Video Interview (90Min) by Leo Laporte "Disrupted:My Misadventures in the Start-Up Bubble" May 9, 2016]
* [http://www.twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/249?autostart=false/ Video Interview (90Min) by Leo Laporte "Disrupted:My Misadventures in the Start-Up Bubble" May 9, 2016]

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For other people named Daniel Lyons, see Daniel Lyons (disambiguation).
Daniel Lyons
American author Daniel Lyons
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Massachusetts
EducationUniversity of Michigan (MFA)
OccupationColumnist
SpouseAlexandra Lyons
ChildrenTwins
Websitehttps://www.danlyons.io/

Daniel Lyons (born 1960) is an American writer. He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and a writer at Newsweek before becoming editor of ReadWrite. In March 2013 he left ReadWrite to accept a position at HubSpot.[1]

Lyons began his career with a book of short stories, The Last Good Man (1993), a novel, Dog Days (1998), and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs (2007). Lyons then began writing non-fiction books: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2016), Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us (2018) and STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World (2023).[2]

Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a popular blog and parody of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He was a writer and coproducer[3] on HBO's Silicon Valley and wrote the script for the May 2015 episode "White Hat/Black Hat"[4] while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014.[5]

Dan Lyons authored the book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble (2016) about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot.[6] The book was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller.[7] Readers responded to the book with numerous letters which inspired his next book: Lab Rats (2018).[8] He has won other literary awards including the 1992 AWP Award for Short Fiction[9] (for his story "The First Snow") and the Playboy College Fiction Award (for "The Greyhound").[10][11]

Early life and education[edit]

Lyons was born in Massachusetts. He attended Brooks School in North Andover, MA, a college preparatory school. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan in 1992.

Career and blogging[edit]

Work as technology analyst[edit]

Lyons was a senior editor at Forbes magazine, covering enterprise computing and consumer electronics. He was also the author of the Forbes cover article, "Attack of the Blogs", where he wrote that blogs "are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective," claiming that Groklaw was primarily created "to bash software maker SCO Group in its Linux patent lawsuit against IBM, producing laughably biased, pro-IBM coverage."[12]

Between 2003 and 2007 Lyons covered the SCO cases against IBM and against Linux. He published articles such as "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets," where he stated that "like many religious folk, the Linux-loving crunchies in the open-source movement are a) convinced of their own righteousness, and b) sure the whole world, including judges, will agree. They should wake up."[13][14][15]

In 2007 Lyons admitted to being "Snowed By SCO": "For four years, I've been covering a lawsuit for Forbes.com, and my early predictions on this case have turned out to be so profoundly wrong that I am writing this mea culpa ... In March 2003, SCO sued IBM claiming that IBM took code from Unix—for which SCO claimed to own copyrights—and put that code into Linux, which is distributed free. Last month a judge ruled that SCO does not, in fact, own the Unix copyrights. That blows SCO's case against IBM out of the water. SCO, of Lindon, Utah, is seeking bankruptcy protection."[16]

Fake Steve Jobs[edit]

Lyons began blogging as "Fake Steve Jobs" in 2006. He was able to maintain anonymity for just under one year, despite speculation. Before the identity of Fake Steve Jobs was revealed by The New York Times' technology correspondent Brad Stone on August 5, 2007,[17] The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs was referenced by numerous online and print media such as Engadget,[18] BusinessWeek,[19] Forbes,[20] Der Spiegel,[21] El Mundo[22] and CNET.[23] Fake Steve Jobs ranked 37th in a Business 2.0 article entitled "50 Who Matter Now."

Previous guesses as to the blog's author included Leander Kahney of Wired (particularly at some of Fake Steve Jobs's Briticisms),[24] Eric Savitz of Barron's Magazine,[25] John Paczkowski of All Things Digital,[26] and Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times.[27] Another suggestion was that Jack Miller, the webmaster/blogger of the "As the Apple Turns" website, which was seemingly abandoned in 2006, but which is still live, could possibly be Fake Steve Jobs.[28]

At The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" technology conference, the real Steve Jobs was quoted as saying, "I have read a few of the Fake Steve Jobs things recently and I think they’re pretty funny."[29] During a later joint interview, Bill Gates quipped that he was not Fake Steve Jobs.[30]

In October 2007 Lyons released the book Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody, under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs". Although based largely upon previous material published on The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs blog, the book creates a more cohesive narrative focusing especially on the stock options backdating scandal looming over Steve Jobs in late 2006 and early 2007.

On July 9, 2008, Lyons announced on the Fake Steve blog[31] that he would be launching a new site under his own name and discontinuing writing in a faux-Jobs style. He later announced his decision to place the Fake Steve blog on indefinite hiatus was out of respect for the real Steve Jobs' health:

"I began hearing a few months ago that Steve Jobs was very sick. I wasn't sure if these rumors were true or not. Then I saw how he looked at [the Worldwide Developers Conference in early June, 2008] and it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I just couldn't carry on."[32]

The blog was continued in 2009 after news broke that Jobs had recovered from a liver transplant,[33] but then suspended again in January 2011 when Jobs took a second leave of absence for health reasons.[34] After Jobs' death in October 2011, Fake Steve Jobs posted a farewell poem, and has not been active since.[35]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Volpe, Mike. "Why I Hired the Fake Steve Jobs". blog.hubspot.com.
  2. ^ "Dan Lyons (Author of Disrupted)". 2023-03-25. Archived from the original on 2023-03-25. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  3. ^ "Silicon Valley Full Cast and Crew". IMDB. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  4. ^ "After years of bad blogging and PR hackery, Dan Lyons improbably writes one of "Silicon Valley"'s best episodes yet". PandoDaily. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. ^ "HubSpot's Dan Lyons has the best job (not) in Silicon Valley". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  6. ^ Garner, Dwight (5 April 2016). "Review: 'Disrupted,' a Tech Takedown by Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  7. ^ Lyons, Dan (7 March 2017). Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble Paperback – March 7, 2017. Hachette Books. ISBN 978-0316306096.
  8. ^ Lyons, Dan (2019). Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1786493941.
  9. ^ "AWP Award Series Winners". AWP Awards. Association of Writers and Writers Programs. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Dog Days review". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Daniel Lyons". Simon and Schuster author page. Simon and Schuster. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  12. ^ Lyons, Daniel (2005-11-14), "Attack of the Blogs", Forbes
  13. ^ Lyons, Daniel (2003-06-18), "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets", Forbes
  14. ^ Lyons, Daniel (2004-08-04), "SCO's 'Smoking Gun' Versus IBM", Forbes, archived from the original on August 6, 2004
  15. ^ Lyons, Daniel (2005-01-21), "SCO Scores", Forbes, archived from the original on January 23, 2005
  16. ^ Lyons, Daniel (2007-09-19), "Snowed By SCO", Forbes
  17. ^ Stone, Brad (6 August 2007). "'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  18. ^ Real interview with Fake Steve Jobs, Engadget
  19. ^ "In Search of the Real Fake Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek". Archived from the original on May 16, 2007.
  20. ^ "Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard". October 17, 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-10-17.
  21. ^ SPIEGEL, Konrad Lischka, DER (5 July 2007). "Doppelgänger-Blog: Fake-Jobs und wie er die Apple-Welt sieht". Der Spiegel.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ "Los dos Steve Jobs | elmundo.es". www.elmundo.es.
  23. ^ "The Fake Steve Jobs is..., CNET News.com". Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
  24. ^ Exclusive: The unmasking of Fake Steve Jobs, Valleywag Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ "Fake Steve Jobs, Valleywag". Archived from the original on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
  26. ^ Rumormonger: Steve Jobs, meet Steve Jobs, Valleywag Archived 2007-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
  27. ^ "Fake Steve Jobs: Andy Ihnatko, faux Apple CEO?, Valleywag". Archived from the original on 2007-08-18. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
  28. ^ "FIXYOURTHINKING.COM / Need a brain? Borrow mine!: Was Fake Steve Really Jack Miller Of AtAT?". 30 January 2007.
  29. ^ "Jobs on YouTube Weirdness, Windows Love and "Fake Steve", The Wall Street Journal".
  30. ^ "D Transcript: Gates, Jobs Reminisce". May 31, 2007 – via www.wsj.com.
  31. ^ "Redirecting". fakesteve.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 2008-07-12. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  32. ^ Jade, Charles (July 25, 2008). "The Real Dan Lyons on Fake Steve Jobs (and why he left)". Ars Technica.
  33. ^ "Welcome back, Fake Steve | Technology | guardian.co.uk". Guardian. 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
  34. ^ Leave Steve Alone!, Newsweek
  35. ^ "One last thing: R.I.P., Steve Jobs". www.fakesteve.net. Retrieved 25 April 2016.

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