by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Garcia Martinez recounts his arc from Goldman Sachs quant to Y Combinator founder to Facebook ad-targeting product manager, detailing how Facebook's advertising machine actually works beneath the PR gloss. The book argues that Silicon Valley is a casino where most founders lose and value accrues to a tiny number of well-positioned insiders.
In this collection, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley references 4 other books.
It draws on The Everything Store, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives and The Innovators.
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Stone's The Everything Store is the reporting model for Garcia Martinez's insider reconstruction of how Facebook's ad machinery competed with Amazon for advertiser budgets
Levy's In the Plex is the comparative account of Google's ad auction mechanics against which Garcia Martinez reconstructs Facebook's competing ad-targeting system
Isaacson's The Innovators supplies the historical arc Garcia Martinez invokes when placing Facebook's rise within the longer Silicon Valley lineage
Ries's The Lean Startup is the methodology Garcia Martinez both practices and satirizes when describing his Y Combinator startup AdGrok's pivot cycles
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