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Antonio Garcia Martinez

Chaos Monkeys


Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
2017. 544 p. 172 mm
Verlag/Jahr: HARPERCOLLINS US; HARPER 2017
ISBN: 0-06-266979-6 (0062669796)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-06-266979-7 (9780062669797)

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LIARS 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. Now available as a mass market paperback!
Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a data center powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this "chaos monkey" to test online services´ robustness-their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society´s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (Airbnb) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder). One of Silicon Valley´s most provocative chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez.

After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook´s nascent advertising team, until he was forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company´s monetization strategy, and eventually landed at rival Twitter.

In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and lays bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionizing our world.
"An irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new technology establishment.... A must-read." Jonathan A. Knee, New York Times
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.