“A “pivot” is supposed to recall a ballerina’s demi détourné, a delicate change of course as graceful as it (hopefully) seems intentional. In reality, a startup’s pivot is a panicked sprint comparable to that of a Titanic passenger who’s spotted… — Antonio Garcia Martinez 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 life. I” — 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
