Summary of Chaos Monkeys: by Antonio Garcia Martinez | Includes Analysis

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Summary of Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez | Includes Analysis

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Chaos Monkeys is a memoir of Antonio Garcia Martinez’s time working as a coder at Goldman Sachs, as a startup employee and founder, and as a product manager at Facebook.

Martinez began working at Goldman Sachs after college as a pricing quant, which is industry slang for a programmer who builds models for pricing credit derivatives. Quants had low status at the firm and Martinez became disillusioned with employees’ reliance on the annual bonus and the gambling-heavy culture of the workplace. In late 2007, he applied for and was offered a job at Adchemy, a startup in California that was developing tools to buy advertising on Google’s real-time bidding engine, the system Google uses to determine which bidder gets advertising space for every Google search.

By 2010, Martinez considered Adchemy, which was led by Chief Executive Officer Murthy Nukala, to be approaching failure. Leadership turnover was high and the company’s…

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683784302

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Chaos Monkeys is a memoir of Antonio Garcia Martinez’s time working as a coder at Goldman Sachs, as a startup employee and founder, and as a product manager at Facebook.

Martinez began working at Goldman Sachs after college as a pricing quant, which is industry slang for a programmer who builds models for pricing credit derivatives. Quants had low status at the firm and Martinez became disillusioned with employees’ reliance on the annual bonus and the gambling-heavy culture of the workplace. In late 2007, he applied for and was offered a job at Adchemy, a startup in California that was developing tools to buy advertising on Google’s real-time bidding engine, the system Google uses to determine which bidder gets advertising space for every Google search.

By 2010, Martinez considered Adchemy, which was led by Chief Executive Officer Murthy Nukala, to be approaching failure. Leadership turnover was high and the company’s energies were focused on a money-making side project rather than the solutions it was supposed to be developing—for which it had no committed clients. So Martinez enlisted the help of two co-workers to submit an application to startup incubation program Y Combinator. Martinez, with Matthew McEachen and Argyris Zymnis, proposed a startup that would give small business owners the insight to effectively navigate Google’s real-time bidding engine.

Around the same time, Martinez met a British derivatives trader through an online dating site and began dating her. Soon after, the trader told Martinez that