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What It's Like Working at a Jargon-Obsessed Company Former journalist Dan Lyons opens up about the extreme jargon culture at HubSpot, what it taught him and how he became sane.

By Joe Keohane

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

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In 2012, journalist Dan Lyons was laid off from his job at Newsweek and wound up working for Massachusetts email marketing firm/jargon volcano HubSpot. His disastrous 20-month tour -- with a leave of absence to go write for HBO's Silicon Valley -- provided the grist for his scathing best-selling takedown of the tech industry, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble.

Here he answers some questions about making the jump from working at an email markting firm to writing for Silicon Valley, dealing with a whole lot of jargon and wanting to fit in.

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