Chaos Monkeys
by Antonio García Martínez
A former Facebook ads product manager's profane, candid memoir of Y Combinator, a startup acquisition and Facebook's ad machine. Unflattering to everyone, including the author, and informative about how the business really works.
Read it if…
you want an unvarnished insider account of Valley incentives.
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Skip it if…
you dislike crude or cynical narrators.
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Three things you will actually use
- Incentives explain behavior.
- Acquisitions are about people and timing.
- Ads are the business.
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Read the chapters on the Twitter versus Facebook acquisition.
Our verdict
Profane and informative.
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