we had Dan Lyons on for "Disrupted," which I thought was a hysterical book. Kara Swisher: Okay, you have written what I would say is probably a not a nice book. If you like this, be sure to subscribe to Recode Decode on iTunes, Google Play Music, TuneIn and Stitcher. Below, we’ve posted a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation. You can read some of the highlights from the interview at that link, or listen to it in the audio player above. Chaos Monkeys lays bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world.On a recent episode of Recode Decode, "Chaos Monkeys" author Antonio García-Martinez spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why his new tell-all book isn’t nice: Because " Silicon Valley isn't a nice place." Weighing in on everything from start-ups and credit derivatives to Big Brother and data tracking, social media monetisation and digital “privacy”, taking us on a humorous, subversive tour of the fascinatingly insular tech industry. 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, 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 monetisation strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. 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 of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (AirBnB) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder).
Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness–their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur.
Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a data centre powering everything from Google to Facebook. Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter adviser, Facebook product manager and start-up founder and CEO.
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