“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
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
'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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
