Daniel Lyons is an American writer, producer, and author who served as a co-producer of Season Three on "Silicon Valley". He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and a writer at Newsweek before becoming editor of ReadWrite. In March 2013 he left ReadWrite to accept a position at HubSpot. Lyons is the author of a book of short stories, The Last Good Man (1993); a novel, Dog Days (1998); and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody (2007). Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a popular blog and parody of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. On Silicon Valley, he also served as staff writer on all Season Two episodes and wrote the script for White Hat/Black Hat on a 14-week hiatus from HubSpot.
