The wall is one of the first things they show off to visitors. It’s called the “candy wall,” and Zack explains that HubSpotters are especially proud of it. The cafeteria next door boasts industrial refrigerators stocked with cases of beer, cabinets with bagels and cereal, and, on one wall, a set of glass dispensers that hold an assortment of nuts and candy. On the ground floor an enormous conference room doubles as a game room, with the requisite foosball table, Ping-Pong table, indoor shuffleboard, and video games. He also found a bright, casual work environment that bore “a striking resemblance to the Montessori schools” his children attended: He found himself cast as the “old man” in an office populated by college graduates half his age. Once he got started, the experience was even more alienating than he’d imagined. As a middle-aged man with a background in journalism, Lyons was an odd fit for a company specializing in Internet marketing - a field he admits to knowing nothing about. In the lead-up to the third season of “Silicon Valley,” one of its writers, Dan Lyons, published an excerpt in Fortune from “Disrupted,” his new book about his misadventures at a start-up called HubSpot.
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