Open AccessThe Silicon Valley We Don’t Want to Have: A review of Antonio García Martínez, Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
Author(s) -
Leith Campbell
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of telecommunications and the digital economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2203-1693
DOI - 10.18080/jtde.v5n3.116
Subject(s) - silicon valley , garcia , silicon , chaos (operating system) , start up , advertising , engineering , art , media studies , sociology , business , political science , humanities , computer science , law , physics , entrepreneurship , computer security , optoelectronics , business administration
This article is a review of Antonio García Martínez’s book, Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine, published in 2016, which tells the story of the author’s time in Silicon Valley. An area of major interest is his time at Facebook, where he helped develop an online advertising exchange. The book is a warts-and-all account that describes many undesirable aspects of “Silicon Valley culture”. While the book is overly self-indulgent, it could valuably be read by policy makers interested in start-ups and business culture.