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I used to work at HubSpot. The company isn't perfect, for instance the lack of diversity is a huge problem. Taken in isolation, there's nothing in the article

I used to work at HubSpot. The company isn't perfect, for instance the lack of diversity is a huge problem. Taken in isolation, there's nothing in the article that's wrong, but the overall picture he paints here is wildly inaccurate. HubSpot is full of incredibly intelligent and capable people, including some of the most talented engineers I've ever worked with. I had the opportunity to meet and speak with every executive during my time there, I've even been to Halligan's apartment. The fact that he managed to find something negative to say about Dave, one of the most genuine people I've ever met, tells me all I need to know- the reason Lyons didn't fit in at HubSpot has nothing to do with his age, it's because he's an asshole.

DavidHm 11y ago
Valuable input...but if you say that there is nothing written in the article that is wrong, I am not sure how you can say that the article is wrong.
- itsame 11y ago
  Maybe the author wasn't wrong in the facts presented. But maybe he wasn't giving the another perspective that would alter your perception or understanding of whatever picture he was trying to paint. If you aren't given the full context, then you haven't fully understood the situation. If partial truths always lead to the correct conclusion, we would never have wrong convictions in courts caused by incomplete evidence. Or to bring the analogy closer to home, if we know only some (but not all) of the use cases, we can't know if our solution truly and completely solves whatever problem we're trying to solve. Maybe Floegipoky knows of another "use case" (insight) here that Dan Lyons happened to leave out.