Chaos Monkeys

Liar s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent expos of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio Garc a Mart nez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product manager and startup founder CEO.The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple Investors are people with money than time.Employees are people with time than money.Entrepreneurs are the seductive go between.Marketing is like sex only losers pay for it Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter 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 audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio Garc a Mart nez.After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, Garc a Mart nez joined Facebook s nascent advertising team, turning its users data into profit for COO Sheryl Sandberg and chairman and CEO Mark Zuck Zuckerberg Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company s monetization strategy, Garc a Mart nez eventually landed at rival Twitter He also fathered two children with a woman he barely knew, committed lewd acts and brewed illegal beer on the Facebook campus accidentally flooding Zuckerberg s desk , lived on a sailboat, raced sport cars on the 101, and enthusiastically pursued the life of an overpaid Silicon Valley wastrel.Now, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future Weighing in on everything from startups and credit derivatives to Big Brother and data tracking, social media monetization and digital privacy, Garc a Mart nez shares his scathing observations and outrageous antics, taking us on a humorous, subversive tour of the fascinatingly insular tech industry Chaos Monkeys 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 The question is, will we survive New Download eBook Chaos Monkeys author Antonio Garcia Martinez – kino-fada.fr The title is a little misleading It really is one guys story about building his company, selling it to Twitter and then working at Facebook Full of stories of egomaniacs and hubris from the author and the characters he works for Not a great statement of humanity s progress, not inspirational, not really a story with a reason to be told other than to garnermedia to inflate an enormous ego So the cycle goes If you are really interested in a great book on the building of a company, rea The title is a little misleading It really is one guys story about building his company, selling it to Twitter and then working at Facebook Full of stories of egomaniacs and hubris from the author and the cha...technology entrepreneurs are society s chaos monkeys, pulling the plug on everything from taxi medallions Uber to traditional hotels AirBnB to dating Tinder One industry after another is simply knocked out via venture backed entrepreneurial daring and hastily shipped software Silicon Valley is the zoo where the chaos monkeys are kept, and their numbers only grow in time With the explosion of venture capital, there is no shortage of bananas to feed them The question for society is whe technology entrepreneurs are society s chaos monkeys, pulling the plug on everything from taxi medallions Uber to traditional hotels AirBnB to dating Tinder One industry after another is simply knocked out via venture backed entrepreneurial daring and hastily shipped software Silicon Valley is the zoo where the chaos monkeys are kept, an...I m not a techie I use a minimal amount of my smartphone s many capabilities and survived the introduction of major technology into my chosen career with a bit of luck and much help from friends and colleagues but I am interested in the business of technology That s to say, how the introduction of electronic technology has transformed industries I ve known and worked in and how it has introduced new businesses I couldn t have dreamt of when I began my working life I know or knew little a I m not a techie I use a minimal amount of my smartphone s many capabilities and survived the introduction of major technology into my chosen career with a bit of luck and much help from friends and colleagues but I am interested in the business of technology That s to say, how the introduction of electronic technology has transformed industries I ve known and worked in and how it has introduced new businesses I couldn t have dreamt of when I began my working life I know or knew little about Silicon Valley, other than an awareness that it s the home of mega companies such as Facebook, Google and Appl...This book is several things.1 A great introduction to how Silicon Valley tech really works I ve worked in tech startups for two decades, and this is exactly they kind of stuff which often happens but is rarely publicly discussed.2 An enthralling memoir of one of the most interesting people around in tech Middling for a rock star or international war correspondent, but vastlyinteresting than most of the people in tech.3 Insights into how Facebook made critical product decisions in what This book is several things.1 A great introduction to how Silicon Valley tech really works I ve worked in tech startups for two decades, and this is exactly they kind of stuff which often happens but is rarely publicly discussed.2 An enthralling memoir of one of the most interesting people around in tech ...At no point do you get the sense that Mart nez is censoring himself beyond what he might absolutely have to do for legal reasons He s all in His personal life is a wreck and he shamelessly puts it out there for all the world to see and judge him by His career in both Wall Street and Silicon Valley is full of of ups and downs and decisions that are, at best, morally ambiguous.The writing is good It s funny, irreverent, and showsthan a passing knowledge of history and literature There s At no point do you get the sense that Mart nez is censoring himself beyond what he might absolutely have to do for legal reasons He s all in His personal life is a wreck and he shamelessly puts it out there for all the world to see and judge him by His career in both Wall Street and Silicon Valley is full of of ups and downs and decisions that are, a...Pretentious, pseudo intellectual misogynist pontificates about his theories on tech business, society, and capitalism while sneering at every other human with Olympian contempt and making unacceptable sexist comments about women for about 500 pages.Had he not insisted on cultivating su...An interesting inside baseball start up tale is ruined by the authors ego dysfunction While there are some interesting bits and even a few accurate observations they are ruined with insults and crudeness The authors casual insults to women, the Bay Area, his co founders a...The book covered two major stages of the author s Silicon Valley career his co founding of a startup, and his experience as a project manager at Facebook Prior to those parts, he also briefly traced his short tenure at Goldman Sachs and later at a sinking Valley startup it was an unique insider account, and an illustrative presentation on how the animal spirit being exposed and exploited in the Silicon Valley startup world.it was an anatomy of technology venture capital machine, and a detaile The book covered two major stages of the author s Silicon Valley career his co founding of a startup,...As somebody who overlapped at FB on the Ads team with the author though we never actually worked together , I found this an extremely accurate portrayal of the company and the larger Silicon Valley culture in general If you re interested in the inside perspective, I recommend this highly.Uma tima perspectiva do que se passa no Silicon Valley e com o Facebook em especial, vindo de algu m de dentro O Antonio Martinez formado em f sica, saiu da Goldman Sachs para criar uma startup e foi para o Facebook logo depois E o livro conta a experi ncia do processo, ao mesmo tempo que se afasta da situa o e conta como a transi o do Facebook de 2010 para 2014 refletiu na plataforma e em como se faz publicidade na internet.Um bom livro para entender a mentalidade das plataformas atuais, Uma tima perspectiva do que se passa no Silicon Valley e com o Facebook em especial, vindo de algu m de dentro O Antonio Martinez formado em f sica, saiu da Goldman Sachs para criar uma startup e foi para o Facebook logo depois E o livro conta a experi ncia do processo, ao mesmo tempo que se afasta da situa o e conta como a transi o do Facebook de 2010 para 2014 refletiu na plataforma e em como se faz publicidade na internet.Um bom livro para entender a men...

• English
• 13 February 2018
Antonio Garcia Martinez
• Hardcover
• 528 pages
• 0062458191
• Antonio Garcia Martinez
• Chaos Monkeys