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He also fathered two children with a woman he barely knew, committed lewd acts and brewed illegal beer on the Facebook campus (accidentally flooding Zuckerberg’s desk), lived on a sailboat, and enthusiastically pursued the life of an overpaid Silicon Valley wastrel. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetisation strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team, turning its users’ data into profit for COO Sheryl Sandberg and chairman and CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg. One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (AirBnB) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder). Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness–their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a data centre powering everything from Google to Facebook. Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter adviser, Facebook product manager and start-up founder and CEO.