The instant New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the authorâthe insider's guide to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the inner workings of the tech world, and who really runs Silicon Valley
âIncisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people who hate this book â which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.â
â Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times
Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this âchaos monkeyâ to test online servicesâ robustnessâtheir ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are societyâs chaos monkeys. One of Silicon Valleyâs most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio GarcĂa MartĂnez.
After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, GarcĂa MartĂnez joined Facebookâs nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the companyâs monetization strategy, GarcĂa MartĂnez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, 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.