“Silicon Valley is the zoo where the chaos monkeys are kept, and their numbers only grow in time. With the explosion of… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Silicon valley 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
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
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
“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 Truth 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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Business Copy Share Image
“Fund-raising is an operatic drama on the order of a Latin American telenovela. Avoid” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Avoid Copy Share Image
“Men with nothing to lose will stop at nothing to win.” — Antonio Garcia Martinez Lose Copy Share Image
My next thing could be something in hardware. It's never been easier to turn bits into atoms. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Atoms 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
At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with. — Antonio Garcia Martinez Engineering 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 Democracy Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t be the first person in Silicon Valley history to interview at a company at which I didn’t really want a… — Antonio Garcia Martinez First person 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 Early Copy Share Image
“Cash, as always, is the poor man’s credit. It would actually have been more expensive to go with the cheaper lawyer, as… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Money Copy Share Image
“First, the ability to monomaniacally and obsessively focus on one thing and one thing only, at the expense of everything else in… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Focus on one thing 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
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
If you'd come to me in 2012, when the last presidential election was raging and we were cooking up ever more complicated… — Antonio Garcia Martinez American Copy Share Image
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… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Business 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 Computers Copy Share Image
