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 Everything 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
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 Future 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
'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
“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
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 Data 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
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
“Truth in the world resides only in mathematical proofs and physics labs. Everywhere else, it’s really a matter of opinion, and if… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
In Silicon Valley, where I worked at companies like Facebook and Twitter for the earlier part of this decade, Cuba was generally… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Cuba 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
“The classic sign of a shitty startup idea is that it requires at least two (or more!) miracles to succeed. This” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Entrepreneurship 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 End 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 Fall 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 Leadership 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
“A “pivot” is supposed to recall a ballerina’s demi détourné, a delicate change of course as graceful as it (hopefully) seems intentional.… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Change 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
“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
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 Business Copy Share Image
If the world really does end, there aren't going to be many places to run. — Antonio Garcia Martinez End 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 Business Copy Share Image
I was at Facebook in 2012, during the previous presidential race. The fact that Facebook could easily throw the election by selectively… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Election Copy Share Image
At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Engineering Copy Share Image
