{"id":32785,"date":"2016-12-08T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T01:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/chaos-monkeys-obscene-fortune-and-random-failure-in-silicon-valley"},"modified":"2016-12-08T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T01:38:56","slug":"chaos-monkeys-obscene-fortune-and-random-failure-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/chaos-monkeys-obscene-fortune-and-random-failure-in-silicon-valley","title":{"rendered":"Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INSTANT\u00a0<em>NEW YORK TIMES<\/em>\u00a0BESTSELLER<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>\u201cIncisive&#8230;. The most enjoyable enterprise ebook I have learn this yr&#8230;. Clearly there can be individuals who hate this ebook \u2014 which might be one of many issues that makes it such an excellent learn.\u201d<br \/>\u2014 Andrew Ross Sorkin,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>\u201cEye-popping.\u201d<br \/>\u2014\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Liar\u2019s Poker<\/em> meets <em>The Social Network<\/em> in an irreverent expos\u00e9 of life contained in the tech bubble, from business provocateur Antonio Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product supervisor and startup founder\/CEO.<\/p>\n<p><em>The actuality is, Silicon Valley capitalism could be very easy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Investors are individuals with extra money than time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Employees are individuals with extra time than cash.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Entrepreneurs are the seductive go-between.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Marketing is like intercourse: solely losers pay for it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging via a datacenter powering the whole lot from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software program model of this \u201cchaos monkey\u201d to check on-line providers\u2019 robustness\u2014their means to outlive random failure and proper errors earlier than they really happen. Tech entrepreneurs are society\u2019s 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\u2019s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n<p>After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his personal startup, Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez joined Facebook\u2019s nascent promoting workforce, turning its customers\u2019 knowledge into revenue for COO Sheryl Sandberg and chairman and CEO Mark \u201cZuck\u201d Zuckerberg. Forced out within the wake of an inner product conflict over the way forward for the corporate\u2019s monetization technique, Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and on-line advertising and divulges how it&#8217;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 \u201cprivateness,\u201d Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez shares his scathing observations and outrageous antics, taking us on a humorous, subversive tour of the fascinatingly insular tech business. <em>Chaos Monkeys<\/em> lays naked the hijinks, commerce secrets and techniques, and energy performs of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, unintentional vacationers, and cash cowboys who&#8217;re revolutionizing our world. 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