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The loud lacrosse bros, eerie employee disappearances and lack of any discernible leadership should all have been clear warning signs that something strange was going on at HubSpot.

But it took a teddy bear to really drive the point home for Dan Lyons, a veteran technology writer who joined the billion-dollar marketing startup in 2013 in his early 50s to kickstart a second career and support his family.

Image: Dan Lyons, a longtime technology writer, offers a hilarious, eye-opening look inside the maddening world of billion-dollar startup HubSpot.IMAGE: RMBURNES/FLICKR