“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
