Antonio Garc a Mart nez 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 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
"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
"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
"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
"Brilliant."--Financial Times
"This year's best non-business book about business.... Garcia
Martinez is a real writer.... A classic tale, well
told."--Techcrunch
"There are some books that are just too good to miss.... In his
insider-tells-all book, Garc a Mart nez discusses everything from
goofy stories to cultural secrets about some of the country's most
powerful and influential businesses."--Atlantic
"[Garc a Mart nez] 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
"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.... [Garc a] can be rude, but he's
shrewd, too."--Bloomberg Businessweek
"Romps through Mart nez'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
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--
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