Chaos Monkeys
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
A profane, insider tell-all of building, selling, and surviving Silicon Valley.
A first-person account of the author's path from Goldman Sachs to founding the adtech startup AdGrok, raising money through Y Combinator, selling to Twitter, and then helping build Facebook's advertising machine. It is a candid, often acidic look at how money, power, and ambition actually move in the tech industry.
Founders get an unvarnished view of fundraising, co-founder conflict, acqui-hires, and the realpolitik of dealing with VCs and acquirers. It strips the gloss off startup mythology and shows the messy incentives a founder must navigate.
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