Antonio García Martínez has been an advisor to Twitter, a product manager for Facebook, the CEO/founder of AdGrok (a venture-backed startup acquired by Twitter), and a strategist for Goldman Sachs. He is an Ideas Contributor for WIRED and lives on a forty-foot sailboat on the San Francisco Bay.
An NPR Best Book of the Year - A Business Insider Top 20 Business
Book of the Year - An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs
and Small Business Owners--
"[García Martínez] is, by his own account, a dissolute
character.... He is nonetheless, by the end of his account, a
winning antihero, a rebel against Silicon Valley's culture of
nonconformist conformity.... The reader can't help rooting for
him."--Jacob Weisberg, New York Review of Books
"Romps through Martínez's wild trajectory from Wall Streeter to
pre-IPO Facebook employee, with the dramatic sale of his Y
Combinator-backed ad-tech startup (to Twitter) in
between."--Jillian D'Onfirio Business Insider
"There are some books that are just too good to miss.... In his
insider-tells-all book, García Martínez discusses everything from
goofy stories to cultural secrets about some of the country's most
powerful and influential businesses."--Atlantic
"Unlike most founding narratives that flow out of the Valley, Chaos
Monkeys dives into the unburnished, day-to-day realities: the
frantic pivots, the enthusiastic ass-kissing, the excruciating
internal politics.... [García] can be rude, but he's shrewd,
too."--Bloomberg Businessweek
"Brilliant."--Financial Times
"Michael Lewis was never a top Wall Street bond salesman, but in
Liar's Poker he captured an era. Chaos Monkeys aims to do the same
for Silicon Valley, and bracingly succeeds."--New York Times Book
Review
"Reckless and rollicking... perceptive and funny and brave.... The
resulting view of the Valley's craziness, self-importance and greed
isn't pretty. But it's one that most of us have never seen before
and aren't likely to forget."--Washington Post
"This year's best non-business book about business.... Garcia
Martinez is a real writer.... A classic tale, well
told."--Techcrunch
"Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year....
Clearly there will be people who hate this book -- which is
probably one of the things that makes it such a great
read."--Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times
"An irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new
technology establishment.... A must-read."--Jonathan A. Knee, New
York Times
"An unvarnished account... of Silicon Valley."--CBS This
Morning
"If you're in a startup or even plan to sue one, Chaos Monkeys is
the book to read."--John Biggs, TechCrunch
"This gossipy insider account from the former Twitter adviser,
Facebook product manager, and start-up CEO dishes dirt while also
explaining the ins and outs of Silicon Valley."--Neal Wyatt,
Library Journal
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