Antonio García Martínez (author)

Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times best-selling author[1] and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.[2]

He has contributed articles to Wired,[3] Medium,[4] Vanity Fair,[5] Business Insider,[6] The Guardian,[7][8] Huffington Post[9] and The Washington Post.[10]

Career

After studying physics in the University of California, Berkeley, Martínez started working at Goldman Sachs in September 2005.[2][11] After leaving Goldman Sachs in March 2008, Martínez started working at Adchemy as a Research Scientist in April 2008.[11] After leaving Adchemy in May 2010, Martínez founded AdGrok, a Y Combinator-backed advertising platform. He sold AdGrok to Twitter in 2011 and started working at Facebook in April 2011 as a director of Facebook's Ad Exchange before leaving Facebook in April 2013.[2][11][12]

In 2016, Martínez released a book titled Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley published by HarperCollins, which is an autobiography that details his career experiences with launching AdGrok, selling it to Twitter, and working at Facebook from its pre-IPO stage.[13][14][15][16]

He is a frequent contributor to Wired.[17]

Books
  • Martinez, Antonio Garcia. Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley money machine. HarperCollins. ISBN 9781473550322.[18]
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References
  1. "Business Books - Best Sellers - August 14, 2016". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  2. "Ex-Goldman Sachs Employee Compares Working At Bank To Being A 'Fluffer' On A 'Porn Set'". Huffington Post. August 5, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  3. "Antonio García Martínez | WIRED". www.wired.com. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  4. "Antonio García Martínez". Medium. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  5. Magazine, Vanity Fair. "Antonio García Martínez". Vanity Fair. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  6. "Antonio Garcia Martinez, Contributor". Business Insider. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  7. Garcia-Martinez, Antonio (May 2, 2017). "I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads". the Guardian. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  8. Martínez, Antonio García (July 1, 2017). "By fining Google, Brussels bureaucrats show themselves to be absurd | Antonio García Martínez". the Guardian. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  9. "Antonio Garcia-Martinez | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  10. "Opinion | A villain, a prophet and two wildly successful start-ups". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  11. "Antonio Garcia-Martinez | LinkedIn".
  12. Constine, Josh. "Facebook's Ad Exchange Director, Former AdGrok CEO Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Hits The Road". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  13. Streitfeld, David (July 5, 2016). "What It Is Actually Like to Be in the Engine Room of the Start-Up Economy". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  14. Kuchler, Hannah. "Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine', by Antonio García Martínez". Financial Times. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  15. Biggs, John. "Inside the ape cage with Antonio Garcia Martinez, author of Chaos Monkeys". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  16. Huet, Ellen (June 30, 2016). "Book Review: Chaos in the Valley". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  17. "Wired Ideas Contributor".
  18. Knee, Jonathan A. (June 28, 2016). "Review: 'Chaos Monkeys' Is a Guide to the Spirit of Silicon Valley". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2017.


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