Tech investor Paul Graham, co-founder of startup founder Y Combinator (García Martínez sold his Y Combinator-backed company AdGrok to Twitter), defended the ousted product engineer, who worked previously as a product manager at Facebook, among other companies. Antonio García Martínez is actually a good guy, tweeted Graham. He might write the occasional shocking thing for effect, but he d never, for example, organize a petition to deprive someone of their livelihood.
In a heated Reddit AMA chat four years ago, after being asked, Why are you such a colossal dic ? , García Martínez described himself thus: Outsiders who know nothing about Silicon Valley think I m terrible. Insiders who know the game well think I m actually honest, self-deprecating, and funny, and actually tame by Valley standards.
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In a rare move, Apple Employees circulate a Petition demanding an investigation into the company s misogynistic new hire
On Monday Patently Apple posted a report titled Apple has hired the Ad Executive who wrote Chaos Monkeys, a one-time NY Times Bestseller. Today, the news has surfaced that Apple employees have circulated a petition demanding an investigation into the company s misogynistic new hire.
A group of Apple employees has written a petition asking for an investigation into the hiring of Antonio García Martínez a former Facebook product manager and author of the book Chaos Monkeys.
In the petition, the employees expressed concern about García Martínez’s views on women and people of color. His hiring “calls into question parts of our system of inclusion at Apple, including hiring panels, background checks, and our process to ensure our existing culture of inclusion is strong enough to withstand individuals who don’t share our inclusive value
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In the petition, Apple employees expressed concern about the views Antonio García Martínez expressed in his book Chaos Monkeys. Martínez was a former Facebook product manager.