Antonio García Martínez

Chaos Monkeys

1. IDEA 1

   Wall Street was the starting point

   García Martínez describes working as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis. He left finance for Silicon Valley, attracted by the chance to build something of his own.

2. IDEA 2

   A small startup joined Y Combinator

   He describes founding AdGrok, an advertising technology startup, and joining the Y Combinator programme. The book shows the long hours, uncertainty and constant fundraising pressure of an early company. Money was always short.

3. IDEA 3

   Selling meant tough choices

   García Martínez describes how AdGrok was sold to Twitter, while he himself joined Facebook. He presents the deal as a tense negotiation in which loyalties to co-founders and investors were tested.

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