At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“If we don’t create the thing that kills Facebook, someone else will.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Converting Facebook data into money is harder than it sounds, mostly because the vast bulk of your user data is worthless. Turns… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
All the early Facebook employees have their story of the moment when they saw the light and realized that Facebook wasn't some… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Managing a combined deal between Facebook and Twitter was like trying to engineer simultaneous orgasm between a premature ejaculator and a frigid… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Facebook could have a video of you fornicating wildly with a frisky German shepherd, with your Social Security number and bank details… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Facebook already has a large political ad sales and operations team that manages ad accounts for large campaigns. Zuckerberg hinted that the… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
In the early days, a Georgia college kid named Chris Putnam created a virus that made your Facebook profile resemble MySpace, then… — Antonio Garcia Martinez 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 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 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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez 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
“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
