“Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than money. Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens. Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money. Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.”… — Antonio García Martínez Copy Share Image
“In the startup game, there are no real rules, only laws, and weakly enforced ones at that. In the end, success would forgive any sins, as it did for Gates and Jobs, and continues to do for countless startup entrepreneurs.” — 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… — 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 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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
