Pablo Roux > Pablo's Quotes

“Arriving here feels like landing on some remote island where a bunch of people have been living for years, in isolation, making up their own rules and rituals and religion and language—even, to some extent, inventing their own reality. This happens at all organizations, but for some reason tech start-ups seem”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

“Apple CEO Steve Jobs used to talk about a phenomenon called a “bozo explosion,” by which a company’s mediocre early hires rise up through the ranks and end up running departments. The bozos now must hire other people, and of course they prefer to hire bozos.”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

“Maybe the best way to do something really innovative is to hire a bunch of young people who have no experience and therefore no preconceived notions about how to run a company.”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

“The bias is often subtle, or even subconscious. People at HubSpot rarely talk about age bias, and when they do, they’re not talking about older workers being treated poorly. They’re talking about how unfair it is that people in their early twenties are not given enough responsibility, just because they’re young.”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

“The first principle of crisis communications is that if you have bad news to divulge, you do it quickly and completely. HubSpot”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

“The thing about bozos is that bozos don’t know that they’re bozos. Bozos think they’re the shit, which makes them really annoying but also incredibly entertaining, depending on your point of view. Shrinks call this the Dunning-Kruger effect, named after two researchers from Cornell University whose studies found that incompetent people fail to recognize their own lack of skill, grossly overestimate their abilities, and are unable to recognize talent in other people who actually are competent.”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble

“At Newsweek I worked for Jon Meacham, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Andrew Jackson. Here I work for a guy who brings a teddy bear to work and considers it a management innovation.”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

“Have you transformed the way you innovate?" was Benioff's big line at the 2012 Dreamforce show. Note that you can switch the two buzzwords in the sentence and it still sounds good and still means nothing.”
― Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble