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Chaos Monkeys

By Antonio Garcia Martinez

Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley. Harper, 2016.

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Chaos Monkeys

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A surprisingly frank insider’s perspective on the machinations of Silicon Valley from tech startup to Twitter and beyond, from the man who would become Facebook’s first ads targeting manager and get fired soon after.

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Who should read Chaos Monkeys

CEOs • startups • entrepreneurs • managers • techies • anyone interested in Silicon Valley

About the author of Chaos Monkeys

Antonio Garcia Martinez studied at Berkeley before taking a job with Goldman Sachs. He left there to form his own startup, AdGrok, eventually selling it to Twitter and taking a job as product manager at Facebook. His autobiography on these experiences, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, was a New York Times bestseller.

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