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.
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, May 15, 2021 - 04:10 PM
A former Facebook project manager, author, and journalist who uprooted his life in Washington to take a job with Apple is
livid, after a woke mob of employees circulated a petition demanding his ouster over controversial statements from a book he wrote five years ago.
The petition took aim at Cuban-American Antonio García Martínez over his book,
Chaos Monkeys (dedicated to all my enemies ) - an autobiography which traces his journey from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Martínez has described the book as total Hunter S. Thompson/Gonzo mode.
According to woke Apple employees,
The Author of the Book Chaos Monkeys has commented about his very public firing at Apple on Twitter
On Monday we had learned that Apple hired the author of the book Chaos Monkeys which was a NY Times Bestseller. He had been with Apple for over two months and his professional title at Apple was noted as Product Engineering, Ads Platform. On Wednesday we posted a report titled In a rare move, Apple Employees circulate a Petition demanding an investigation into the company s misogynistic new hire. On Thursday, we posted a report title Apple Backtracks and Sends their recent Ad Engineer Hire Mr. Martinez Packing after receiving an angry Employee Petition. We ended the report noting: Whether we ll hear from Mr. Martinez on this matter in the future is unknown at this time. 24 hours later, Mr. Martinez took to Twitter.