“Now, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future. He also fathered two children with a woman he barely knew, committed lewd acts and brewed illegal beer on the Facebook campus (accidentally flooding Zuckerberg’s desk), lived on a sailboat, raced sport cars on the 101, and enthusiastically pursued the life of an overpaid Silicon Valley wastrel. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter.

“ After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team, turning its users’ data into profit for COO Sheryl Sandberg and chairman and CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg. One description of the book is “ Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble.” It has also been on the New York Times best-seller list, thus qualifying the book as a potential selection at our First Friday Book Synopsis in Dallas. The book was distributed on June 28, 2016, and debuted at # 5 in the list, which is incredibly high. The book is entitled Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valleyby Antonio Garcia Martinez (New York: Harper, 2016). Only one new book debuted on the Wall Street Journal business best-selling list, published on July 16-17, p.

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