Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it's actually getting what it thinks it is. — 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
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 Image
“An empty pageant; a stage play; flocks of sheep, herds of cattle; a bone flung among a pack of dogs; a crumb tossed into a pond of fish; ants, loaded and laboring; mice, scared and scampering; puppets, jerking on their strings; that is life. In the midst of it all you must take your stand, good-temperedly and without disdain, yet… — 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 Image
“All ambitious men want either to please their fathers or to punch them in the goddamned face.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez 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 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, fights won,… — Antonio Garcia Martinez 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 is having… — 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 times prefer - being subject to the rigors of the market, the fickleness of luck, and the whims of users than to navigate the popularity-contest politics of a large company, surrounded by the mediocre duffers who've succeeded in… — 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 Image
“As a Facebook product manager, you resembled an Afghan warlord or a pirate captain: fearsome in appearance to any outsiders, the scourge of entire companies and industries, but actually barely in control of your small band of engineer-hooligans, and always one step from mutiny. To the outside world, your job was easy: a two-line email would have the senior management… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share
