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“Incisive…. The most enjoyable enterprise e-book I have learn this yr…. Clearly there can be individuals who hate this e-book — which might be one of many issues that makes it such an ideal learn.”
— Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times
“Eye-popping.”
— Vanity Fair
Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life contained in the tech bubble, from business provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product supervisor and startup founder/CEO.
The actuality is, Silicon Valley capitalism could be very easy:
Investors are individuals with extra money than time.
Employees are individuals with extra time than cash.
Entrepreneurs are the seductive go-between.
Marketing is like intercourse: solely losers pay for it.
Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging via a datacenter powering every part from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software program model of this “chaos monkey” to check on-line providers’ robustness—their means to outlive random failure and proper errors earlier than they really happen. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and reworking each facet of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (AirBnB) to tv (Netflix) and courting (Tinder). One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez.
After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his personal startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent promoting group, turning its customers’ knowledge into revenue for COO Sheryl Sandberg and chairman and CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg. Forced out within the wake of an inner product struggle over the way forward for the corporate’s monetization technique, García Martínez ultimately landed at rival Twitter. He additionally fathered two youngsters with a lady he barely knew, dedicated lewd acts and brewed unlawful beer on the Facebook campus (by accident flooding Zuckerberg’s desk), lived on a sailboat, raced sport automobiles on the one hundred and one, and enthusiastically pursued the lifetime of an overpaid Silicon Valley wastrel.
Now, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and on-line advertising and divulges how it’s invading our lives and shaping our future. Weighing in on the whole lot from startups and credit score derivatives to Big Brother and knowledge monitoring, social media monetization and digital “privateness,” García Martínez shares his scathing observations and outrageous antics, taking us on a humorous, subversive tour of the fascinatingly insular tech business. Chaos Monkeys lays naked the hijinks, commerce secrets and techniques, and energy performs of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, unintentional vacationers, and cash cowboys who’re revolutionizing our world. The query is, will we survive?
