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.
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.