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> [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 that let any even minimally competent duffer set up a Web app that does something. Intelligent planning for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/you-can-fake-a-lot-in-a-startup-these-days-what-with-amazon-web/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

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## More by Antonio Garcia Martinez

> [If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/if-you-re-a-small-startup-considering-selling-your-company-there-s/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/cubans-can-be-as-conversant-as-any-netflix-and-chill-american-about/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“An empty pageant; a stage play; flocks of sheep, herds of cattle; a bone flung among a pack of dogs; a crumb tossed into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/an-empty-pageant-a-stage-play-flocks-of-sheep-herds-of-cattle-a-bone/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [You don't realise it, but we're in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They're way ahead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/you-don-t-realise-it-but-we-re-in-a-race-between-technology-and/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“All ambitious men want either to please their fathers or to punch them in the goddamned face.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/all-ambitious-men-want-either-to-please-their-fathers-or-to-punch/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“Don’t work for the survivors or architects of massacres. You’ll live just long enough to regret it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/don-t-work-for-the-survivors-or-architects-of-massacres-you-ll-live/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“Cynicism is the last refuge of the shiftless. I”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/cynicism-is-the-last-refuge-of-the-shiftless-i/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“Incidentally, it helps to have enemies. While love is a beautiful emotion, far more empires have been built, books written, wrongs righted, fights won,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/incidentally-it-helps-to-have-enemies-while-love-is-a-beautiful/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after the other, while an equity round is having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/to-make-an-analogy-a-capped-note-is-like-having-to-seduce-five-women/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“In all my experience in both startups and large companies, including and especially at Facebook, I would always prefer - a hundred times prefer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/in-all-my-experience-in-both-startups-and-large-companies-including/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“Despite the fact that the entire continent was unable to itself produce even a single consumer Internet company of global scope, Europe did reserve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/despite-the-fact-that-the-entire-continent-was-unable-to-itself/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“As a Facebook product manager, you resembled an Afghan warlord or a pirate captain: fearsome in appearance to any outsiders, the scourge of entire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/as-a-facebook-product-manager-you-resembled-an-afghan-warlord-or-a/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“Managing a combined deal between Facebook and Twitter was like trying to engineer simultaneous orgasm between a premature ejaculator and a frigid woman: nigh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/managing-a-combined-deal-between-facebook-and-twitter-was-like-trying/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/in-the-early-days-a-georgia-college-kid-named-chris-putnam-created-a/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

> [“Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-garcia-martinez/most-managers-are-incompetent-and-maintain-their-jobs-via-inertia-and/)

[Antonio Garcia Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-garcia-martinez/)

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