Chaos Monkeys

“An unvarnished account… of Silicon Valley.” - CBS This Morning

An NPR Best Book of the Year - A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year - An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners - NPR

”[Garcia Martinez] reads like a philosopher and historian, the exact travel guide you’d want to walk you through the inner workings of Facebook. His tell-all memoir is the best writing out there on one of the world’s most powerful companies. And he even manages to make the ins and outs of online advertising fascinating.” - Aarti Shahanti, npr.org

“This year’s best non-business book about business…. Garcia Martinez is a real writer…. A classic tale, well told.” - Techcrunch

“Brilliant.” - Financial Times

“Reckless and rollicking… perceptive and funny and brave…. The resulting view of the Valley’s craziness, self-importance and greed isn’t pretty. But it’s one that most of us have never seen before and aren’t likely to forget.” - Washington Post

“An irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new technology establishment…. A must-read.” - Jonathan A. Knee, New York Times

“If you’re in a startup or even plan to sue one, Chaos Monkeys is the book to read.” - John Biggs, TechCrunch

“This gossipy insider account from the former Twitter adviser, Facebook product manager, and start-up CEO dishes dirt while also explaining the ins and outs of Silicon Valley.” - Neal Wyatt, Library Journal

“Romps through Martínez’s wild trajectory from Wall Streeter to pre-IPO Facebook employee, with the dramatic sale of his Y Combinator-backed ad-tech startup (to Twitter) in between.” - Jillian D’Onfirio Business Insider

”[García Martínez] is, by his own account, a dissolute character…. He is nonetheless, by the end of his account, a winning antihero, a rebel against Silicon Valley’s culture of nonconformist conformity…. The reader can’t help rooting for him.” - Jacob Weisberg, New York Review of Books

“Eye-popping.” - Vanity Fair

“Unlike most founding narratives that flow out of the Valley, Chaos Monkeys dives into the unburnished, day-to-day realities: the frantic pivots, the enthusiastic ass-kissing, the excruciating internal politics…. [García] can be rude, but he’s shrewd, too.” - Bloomberg Businessweek

“Traces the evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it’s become a part of our daily lives and how it will affect our future.” - Leonard Lopate, WNYC

“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

“There are some books that are just too good to miss…. In his insider-tells-all book, García Martínez discusses everything from goofy stories to cultural secrets about some of the country’s most powerful and influential businesses.” - Atlantic

“Michael Lewis was never a top Wall Street bond salesman, but in Liar’s Poker he captured an era. Chaos Monkeys aims to do the same for Silicon Valley, and bracingly succeeds.” - New York Times Book Review

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.

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