Remember that this book is entertainment, and Lyons advertises it as entertainment. I have already forgotten everyone's names, and would have forgotten the com

Remember that this book is entertainment, and Lyons advertises it as entertainment. I have already forgotten everyone's names, and would have forgotten the company's name had it not come up in the news recently over this book. But the book has valid revelations about the industry (one reason I read the book was to hear this, since I am a software developer with lots of startup experience and now some big-company experience); and it also has sad material about poor inter-personal interactions with lots of covert aggression (which can happen in any industry, but it will be mitigated or exacerbated by company culture and the quality of the role models --- which is one reason you want elders in your company, for if you don't have role models and coaches, you are in for a sorry life). To make a book entertaining, you need material. This startup and some of the employees gave him lots of material that he didn't want. I think that Lyons would have been much happier if the startup had provided a flourishing environment rather than material for writing such a book. I do not think that he sought this out --- I've experienced a languishing environment and it is punishing. The irony is that (based on his telling of the story) people used quite a bit of covert aggression towards him, assuming that he would be some powerless guy out of fear of losing his job due to his age, yet he has power through an audience that will read his books, and the aggressors walked right into it with poor behavior.