“Fund-raising is an operatic drama on the order of a Latin American telenovela. Avoid” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Marketing Copy Share Image
My next thing could be something in hardware. It's never been easier to turn bits into atoms. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Atoms Copy Share Image
“Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Incompetent Copy Share Image
If the world really does end, there aren't going to be many places to run. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is the last refuge of the shiftless. I” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Cynicism Copy Share Image
“If we don’t create the thing that kills Facebook, someone else will.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Books Copy Share Image
“Our only hope is that the profits from authoring schemes outweigh the costs of being extras in those of others; I” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Hope Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t be the first person in Silicon Valley history to interview at a company at which I didn’t really want a… — Antonio Garcia Martinez First person Copy Share Image
“But such is the greased pole of Silicon Valley fame and power; anyone can try to ascend, but nothing will arrest your… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Ascend Copy Share Image
The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Enemies Copy Share Image
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 Image
“The corporate-development teams of large companies, insofar as their small-company deals are concerned, are really glorified HR recruiters with fatter checkbooks. That” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Large companies Copy Share Image
“If humanity had waited until 2010 to invent masturbation, it would not have caught on as fast as CityVille. That” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Democracy Copy Share Image
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Cuba Copy Share Image
“At their extremes, capitalism and communism become equivalent: Endless toil motivated by lapidary ideals handed down by a revered and unquestioned leader,… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Capitalism Copy Share Image
'Targeting' is polite ads-speak for the data levers that Facebook exposes to advertisers, allowing that predatory lot to dissect the user base… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Biology Copy Share Image
When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Delusion Copy Share Image
“A “pivot” is supposed to recall a ballerina’s demi détourné, a delicate change of course as graceful as it (hopefully) seems intentional.… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Change Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, it helps to have enemies. While love is a beautiful emotion, far more empires have been built, books written, wrongs righted,… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Books Copy Share Image
I was at Facebook in 2012, during the previous presidential race. The fact that Facebook could easily throw the election by selectively… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Election 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 Business Copy Share Image
“An empty pageant; a stage play; flocks of sheep, herds of cattle; a bone flung among a pack of dogs; a crumb… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Ambition Copy Share Image
“The tech startup scene, for all its pretensions of transparency, principled innovation, and a counterculture renouncement of pressed shirts and staid social… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Entrepreneurship 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 Business Copy Share Image
“In Ads, we had completely failed to realize the importance of the logout page on FB. A bit of background: In most… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Computers Copy Share Image
“A plug for the quantitative sciences: The reality is, most humans manage to feed, clothe, and amuse themselves, and yet are not… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Boot camp 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 Business Copy Share Image
“All ambitious men want either to please their fathers or to punch them in the goddamned face.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Father Copy Share Image
At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Engineering Copy Share Image
“To paraphrase Lord Palmerston about great nations, companies like Facebook had no eternal allies and no perpetual enemies, they merely had eternal… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
FBX was my baby that I staked everything on. We shipped it fast, scaled it up, and now the baby talks and… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Baby Copy Share Image
“Long story short: I don’t know shit about whatever dancing monkey of the moment is amusing the plebes.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Amusing Copy Share Image
“Don’t work for the survivors or architects of massacres. You’ll live just long enough to regret it.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Massacres Copy Share Image
“The classic sign of a shitty startup idea is that it requires at least two (or more!) miracles to succeed. This” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Customer Copy Share Image
“To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after the other, while an equity round… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Analogy Copy Share Image
“First, the ability to monomaniacally and obsessively focus on one thing and one thing only, at the expense of everything else in… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Focus on one thing Copy Share Image
