An irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new technology establishment.... A must-read.” — Jonathan A. Knee, New York Times
“Reckless and rollicking... perceptive and funny and brave.... The resulting view of the Valley’s craziness, self-importance and greed isn’t pretty. But it’s one that most of us have never seen before and aren’t likely to forget.” — Washington Post
“Michael Lewis was never a top Wall Street bond salesman, but in Liar’s Poker he captured an era. Chaos Monkeys aims to do the same for Silicon Valley, and bracingly succeeds.” — New York Times Book Review
“Brilliant.” — Financial Times
“This year’s best non-business book about business.... Garcia Martinez is a real writer.... A classic tale, well told.” — Techcrunch
“There are some books that are just too good to miss.... In his insider-tells-all book, García Martínez discusses everything from goofy stories to cultural secrets about some of the country’s most powerful and influential businesses.” — Atlantic
“Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people who hate this book — which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.” — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times
“Eye-popping.” — Vanity Fair
“[García Martínez] is, by his own account, a dissolute character.... He is nonetheless, by the end of his account, a winning antihero, a rebel against Silicon Valley’s culture of nonconformist conformity.... The reader can’t help rooting for him.” — Jacob Weisberg, New York Review of Books
“Unlike most founding narratives that flow out of the Valley, Chaos Monkeys dives into the unburnished, day-to-day realities: the frantic pivots, the enthusiastic ass-kissing, the excruciating internal politics.... [García] can be rude, but he’s shrewd, too.” — Bloomberg BusinessWeek
“An unvarnished account… of Silicon Valley.” — CBS This Morning
“Romps through Martínez’s wild trajectory from Wall Streeter to pre-IPO Facebook employee, with the dramatic sale of his Y Combinator-backed ad-tech startup (to Twitter) in between.” — Jillian D'Onfirio Business Insider
“Traces the evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it’s become a part of our daily lives and how it will affect our future.” — Leonard Lopate, WNYC
“If you’re in a startup or even plan to sue one, Chaos Monkeys is the book to read.” — John Biggs, TechCrunch
“This gossipy insider account from the former Twitter adviser, Facebook product manager, and start-up CEO dishes dirt while also explaining the ins and outs of Silicon Valley.” — Neal Wyatt, Library Journal
“[Garcia Martinez] reads like a philosopher and historian, the exact travel guide you’d want to walk you through the inner workings of Facebook. His tell-all memoir is the best writing out there on one of the world’s most powerful companies. And he even manages to make the ins and outs of online advertising fascinating.” — Aarti Shahanti, npr.org
An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year • An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners —
Eye-popping.
Traces the evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it’s become a part of our daily lives and how it will affect our future.
If you’re in a startup or even plan to sue one, Chaos Monkeys is the book to read.
…a valley account like no other…This is autobiography as revenge, naming names and sparing few, certainly not the author…Michael Lewis was never a top Wall Street bond salesman, but in Liar's Poker he captured an era. Chaos Monkeys aims to do the same for Silicon Valley, and bracingly succeeds. Nothing I've ever read conveys better what it actually is like to be in the engine room of the start-up economy. There were moments I laughed out loud, something I never recall doing while reading about Steve Jobs.
The New York Times Book Review - David Streitfeld
Brilliant.
There are some books that are just too good to miss.... In his insider-tells-all book, García Martínez discusses everything from goofy stories to cultural secrets about some of the country’s most powerful and influential businesses.
Reckless and rollicking... perceptive and funny and brave.... The resulting view of the Valley’s craziness, self-importance and greed isn’t pretty. But it’s one that most of us have never seen before and aren’t likely to forget.
This year’s best non-business book about business.... Garcia Martinez is a real writer.... A classic tale, well told.
Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people who hate this book — which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.
An irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new technology establishment.... A must-read.
Unlike most founding narratives that flow out of the Valley, Chaos Monkeys dives into the unburnished, day-to-day realities: the frantic pivots, the enthusiastic ass-kissing, the excruciating internal politics.... [García] can be rude, but he’s shrewd, too.
[García Martínez] is, by his own account, a dissolute character.... He is nonetheless, by the end of his account, a winning antihero, a rebel against Silicon Valley’s culture of nonconformist conformity.... The reader can’t help rooting for him.
Michael Lewis was never a top Wall Street bond salesman, but in Liar’s Poker he captured an era. Chaos Monkeys aims to do the same for Silicon Valley, and bracingly succeeds.
New York Times Book Review
Reckless and rollicking... perceptive and funny and brave.... The resulting view of the Valley’s craziness, self-importance and greed isn’t pretty. But it’s one that most of us have never seen before and aren’t likely to forget.
Brilliant.
Romps through Martínez’s wild trajectory from Wall Streeter to pre-IPO Facebook employee, with the dramatic sale of his Y Combinator-backed ad-tech startup (to Twitter) in between.
Jillian D'Onfirio Business Insider
This gossipy insider account from the former Twitter adviser, Facebook product manager, and start-up CEO dishes dirt while also explaining the ins and outs of Silicon Valley.
An unvarnished account… of Silicon Valley.
[Garcia Martinez] reads like a philosopher and historian, the exact travel guide you’d want to walk you through the inner workings of Facebook. His tell-all memoir is the best writing out there on one of the world’s most powerful companies. And he even manages to make the ins and outs of online advertising fascinating.
An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year • An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners
Unlike most founding narratives that flow out of the Valley, Chaos Monkeys dives into the unburnished, day-to-day realities: the frantic pivots, the enthusiastic ass-kissing, the excruciating internal politics.... [García] can be rude, but he’s shrewd, too.
There are some books that are just too good to miss.... In his insider-tells-all book, García Martínez discusses everything from goofy stories to cultural secrets about some of the country’s most powerful and influential businesses.
Michael Lewis was never a top Wall Street bond salesman, but in Liar’s Poker he captured an era. Chaos Monkeys aims to do the same for Silicon Valley, and bracingly succeeds.
Reckless and rollicking... perceptive and funny and brave.... The resulting view of the Valley’s craziness, self-importance and greed isn’t pretty. But it’s one that most of us have never seen before and aren’t likely to forget.
Tech start-up insider Martinez shares details of his adrenaline- and testosterone-filled years before his abrupt departure from social media giant Facebook. Narrator Dan John Miller plays him as brash and cocky, which suits Martinez to a tee. On the basis of this performance, Miller can most assuredly add “humble brag” to his resume of mastered deliveries. CHAOS MONKEYS derives its name from software that companies deploy to stress their networks in order to look for weaknesses. With that metaphor, Martinez describes the whole obstreperous tech world, as seen from his vantage point of its innermost sanctums. Like exploits shared over brewskies or one of Martinez’s own start-up pitches, these experiences may feel only subjectively truthful—but listeners will still hang on every word. K.W. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
SEPTEMBER 2016 - AudioFile
