“Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Marketing Copy Share Image
“Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Incompetent Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is the last refuge of the shiftless. I” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Cynicism Copy Share Image
“All ambitious men want either to please their fathers or to punch them in the goddamned face.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Father Copy Share Image
“If we don’t create the thing that kills Facebook, someone else will.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Kills Copy Share Image
“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Books Copy Share Image
“Our only hope is that the profits from authoring schemes outweigh the costs of being extras in those of others; I” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Hope Copy Share Image
“But such is the greased pole of Silicon Valley fame and power; anyone can try to ascend, but nothing will arrest your… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Ascend Copy Share Image
The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Enemies 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 Ahead Copy Share Image
“The corporate-development teams of large companies, insofar as their small-company deals are concerned, are really glorified HR recruiters with fatter checkbooks. That” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Large companies Copy Share Image
“To paraphrase Lord Palmerston about great nations, companies like Facebook had no eternal allies and no perpetual enemies, they merely had eternal… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“If humanity had waited until 2010 to invent masturbation, it would not have caught on as fast as CityVille. That” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Invent Masturbation Copy Share Image
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Cuba Copy Share Image
“At their extremes, capitalism and communism become equivalent: Endless toil motivated by lapidary ideals handed down by a revered and unquestioned leader,… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Capitalism 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 Biology Copy Share Image
When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Delusion 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,… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Books Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the Valley attitude is an empowered anomie turbocharged by selfishness, respecting some nominal “feel-good” principals of progress or collective technological striving,… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Attitude 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 College 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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez American 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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Business 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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Ambition Copy Share Image
“The tech startup scene, for all its pretensions of transparency, principled innovation, and a counterculture renouncement of pressed shirts and staid social… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
“In all my experience in both startups and large companies, including and especially at Facebook, I would always prefer - a hundred… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Business Copy Share Image
“A plug for the quantitative sciences: The reality is, most humans manage to feed, clothe, and amuse themselves, and yet are not… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Boot camp Copy Share Image
“Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than money. Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.… — Antonio García Martínez Business Copy Share Image
FBX was my baby that I staked everything on. We shipped it fast, scaled it up, and now the baby talks and… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Baby Copy Share Image
“Long story short: I don’t know shit about whatever dancing monkey of the moment is amusing the plebes.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Amusing 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 Massacres Copy Share Image
“The classic sign of a shitty startup idea is that it requires at least two (or more!) miracles to succeed. This” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Customer 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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Analogy 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 Business 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 Twitter 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 Ability Copy Share Image
“What a company builds (SVP, Product), how it builds it (SVP, Engineering), how that eventual product is operationally run (COO), and what… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Business 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 Children Copy Share Image
Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Acquisition 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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Business 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 Customer Copy Share Image
