发表于2024-09-09
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 lives on a forty-foot sailboat on the San Francisco Bay.
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, 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, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. He also fathered two children with a woman he barely knew, brewed illegal beer on the Facebook campus (accidentally flooding Zuckerberg’s desk), lived on a sailboat, raced sports cars on the 101, and enthusiastically pursued the life of an overpaid Silicon Valley cad.
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,” García Martínez 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, how will we survive?
The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple: Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than money. Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-between.
Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money. Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.
Chaos Monkeys 下载 mobi pdf epub txt 电子书 格式 2024
Chaos Monkeys 下载 mobi epub pdf 电子书##补:2016年12月读完 信用衍生品在证券交易所公开交易固然能增加总体交易量和相应的佣金,在一个开放的信用市场会削弱高盛独占的信息优势,使它卷入激烈的竞争之中,更不用提接受严格的金融监管了。即使开放可以把市场做大,高盛也宁愿舒服的独占一块小市场,它不想沦落为大市场里的一位普通玩家。...
评分##Disappointing coming from someone who seems to be well read and more than capable in technical aspects. All the good materials went to waste in sheer bitterness and pettiness. It's such a shame how oftentimes profanity is mistaken for poignancy.
评分 评分 评分Not the average book as Startup 101 or How-to,kind of the reality show about the startups/VCs and work-life in Silicon Valley. Besides, as an ads guy from the technology and business side, give readers ideas how ads works in the digital world, esp. on how t...
评分 评分Chaos Monkeys mobi epub pdf txt 电子书 格式下载 2024