Antonio Garcia Martinez

Chaos Monkeys (eBook, ePUB)

Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The instant New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the authorthe insider's guide to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the inner workings of the tech world, and who really runs Silicon Valley

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

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' robustnesstheir ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society's chaos monkeys. One of Silicon Valley's most audacious 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. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company's monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 533
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062884480
• Artikelnr.: 53320893

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

An irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new technology establishment...a must-read New York Times