Chaos Monkeys
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Recommended by Raoul Pal and Charles Arthur
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Technology, Business, and Nonfiction.
The instant New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the authorthe insider's guide to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the inner workings of the tech world, and who really runs Silicon Valley?Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people who ...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Technology, Business, and Nonfiction.
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Raoul Pal
“@chronic_trader I tried but I cant do ten and there isn't enough room for a full list so books Ive recently enjoyed are: Sapiens Homo Deus The Silk Road The Lean Start Up Trust me Im lying Conspiracy Chaos Monkeys David Bowie A life Why Minksy Matters The Sheltering Sky The Undoing Project | This is a great book. I’d put this alongside “The Nudist on the Night Shift” and Charles Ferguson’s “High Stakes No Prisoners” as essential to understanding Silicon Valley and the startup life.”
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