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Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times Best Selling Author and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.[1] His first book Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (2016) published by HarperCollins, is an autobiography that details his career experiences with launching a tech startup, selling it to Twitter, and working at Facebook from its pre-IPO stage.[2][3][4][5]

He is a contributing writer for Vanity Fair, Business Insider, The Guardian, Wired, Huffington post and the Washington Post.

In May 2010, García Martínez founded AdGrok, a Y Combinator-backed advertising platform. He sold the company to Twitter in 2011.[6]

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  1. ^ "Ex-Goldman Sachs Employee Compares Working At Bank To Being A 'Fluffer' On A 'Porn Set'". Huffington Post. 5 August 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. ^ Streitfeld, David (5 July 2016). "What It Is Actually Like to Be in the Engine Room of the Start-Up Economy". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  3. ^ Kuchler, Hannah. "Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine', by Antonio García Martínez". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  4. ^ Biggs, John. "Inside the ape cage with Antonio Garcia Martinez, author of Chaos Monkeys". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 October 2017. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 66 (help)
  5. ^ Huet, Ellen (30 June 2016). "Book Review: Chaos in the Valley". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  6. ^ Constine, Josh. "Facebook's Ad Exchange Director, Former AdGrok CEO Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Hits The Road". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  7. ^ Knee, Jonathan A. (28 June 2016). "Review: 'Chaos Monkeys' Is a Guide to the Spirit of Silicon Valley". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 October 2017.

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