“In the startup game, there are no real rules, only laws, and weakly enforced ones at that. In the end, success would… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that the entire continent was unable to itself produce even a single consumer Internet company of global scope, Europe… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“What a company builds (SVP, Product), how it builds it (SVP, Engineering), how that eventual product is operationally run (COO), and what… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“In all my experience in both startups and large companies, including and especially at Facebook, I would always prefer - a hundred… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“As a Facebook product manager, you resembled an Afghan warlord or a pirate captain: fearsome in appearance to any outsiders, the scourge… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than money. Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.… — Antonio García Martínez Copy Share Image
If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
Cubans can be as conversant as any Netflix-and-chill American about popular shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Black Mirror', and they drop allusions to… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“An empty pageant; a stage play; flocks of sheep, herds of cattle; a bone flung among a pack of dogs; a crumb tossed into… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
You don't realise it, but we're in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They're way ahead. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“All ambitious men want either to please their fathers or to punch them in the goddamned face.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“Don’t work for the survivors or architects of massacres. You’ll live just long enough to regret it.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“Incidentally, it helps to have enemies. While love is a beautiful emotion, far more empires have been built, books written, wrongs righted, fights won,… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after the other, while an equity round is having… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“In all my experience in both startups and large companies, including and especially at Facebook, I would always prefer - a hundred times prefer… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“Despite the fact that the entire continent was unable to itself produce even a single consumer Internet company of global scope, Europe did reserve… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“As a Facebook product manager, you resembled an Afghan warlord or a pirate captain: fearsome in appearance to any outsiders, the scourge of entire… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“Managing a combined deal between Facebook and Twitter was like trying to engineer simultaneous orgasm between a premature ejaculator and a frigid woman: nigh… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
In the early days, a Georgia college kid named Chris Putnam created a virus that made your Facebook profile resemble MySpace, then the social-media… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
“Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
