Name: Chaos Monkeys
Rating: 4.15 (4 reviews)
Author: Antonio García Martínez

Antonio García Martínez

Entrepreneurs are the seductive go-between in Silicon Valley's technology bubble.  Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor and Facebook product manager, also serves as a tech entrepreneur himself.  In his book Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, he provides an informative narrative of how Silicon Valley works and what it's like to be an entrepreneur in this technology-driven world. 

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