Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune And Random Failure In Silicon Valley

Name: Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune And Random Failure In Silicon Valley
Author: Antonio Garcia Martinez
ISBN: 9780062458193

by Antonio Garcia Martinez

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 “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 “Eye-popping.” — Vanity Fair 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. The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple: Investors are people with more money than time.…

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"Antonio Garcia Martinez, author of Chaos Monkeys, reads like a despicable human being: a misogynistic Silicon Valley elitist who lives on a sailboat, neglects his kids and embraces the tech culture he claims to reject. But (and this is the tricky part), he also reads like a philosopher and historian, the exact travel guide you’d want to walk you through the inner workings of Facebook. His tell-all memoir is the best writing out there on one of the world’s most powerful companies. And he even manages to make the ins and outs of online advertising fascinating."

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