page_title: Daniel Lyons
hierarchical_section_title: Daniel Lyons
caption_attribution_description: Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, holding up an Apple turtleneck for size at an event at Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park.
context_page_description: Daniel Lyons 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.
  Lyons is the author of a book of short stories, The Last Good Man; a novel, Dog Days; and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody. 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 wrote the script for the May 2015 episode of HBO's Silicon Valley, "White Hat/Black Hat" while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014.
  Dan Lyons released the book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble on April 5, 2016 about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot.
context_section_description: 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.
  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 CEO Steve Jobs. He wrote the script for the May 2015 episode of HBO's Silicon Valley, "White Hat/Black Hat" while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014.
  Dan Lyons released the book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble on April 5, 2016 about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot.
caption: Lyons holding up an Apple turtleneck for size
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