Antonio García Martínez, also known by his initials AGM, is a New York Times best-selling author and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok, and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.
He has contributed articles to Wired, Vanity Fair, Business Insider, The Guardian, HuffPost, and The Washington Post.
Career :
After studying physics in the University of California, Berkeley, García Martínez started working at Goldman Sachs in September 2005. After leaving Goldman Sachs in March 2008, he started working at Adchemy as a Research Scientist in April 2008. After leaving Adchemy in May 2010, he founded AdGrok, a Y Combinator-backed advertising platform. He sold AdGrok to Twitter in 2011 and started working at Facebook in April 2011 as a director of Facebook's Ad Exchange before leaving Facebook in April 2013. He worked briefly at Apple in 2021, before the company severed ties with him as a result of internal backlash over his hiring.
In 2016, García Martínez released a book entitled Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley published by HarperCollins, which is...More about Antonio Garcia...
