![]() ![]() Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez.Īfter stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team, turning its users’ data into profit for COO Sheryl Sandberg and chairman and CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (AirBnB) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder). Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness-their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. ![]() Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it. Investors are people with more money than time.Įmployees are people with more time than money.Įntrepreneurs are the seductive go-between. The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple: Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product manager and startup founder/CEO. ![]()
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