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Saturday, October 8 • 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Chaos Monkeys of Silicon Valley

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Liar's Poker meets The Social Network in this irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product manager, and startup founder/CEO. With Peter Hartlaub (San Francisco Chronicle). $15 advance or at the door

In Chaos Monkeys, the author unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future. Weighing in on everything from startups and credit derivatives to Big Brother and data tracking, social media monetization and digital "privacy," García Martínez shares his scathing observations and outrageous antics, taking us on a humorous, subversive tour of the fascinatingly insular tech industry. 
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Peter Hartlaub

Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub is pop culture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. He reviews movies and concerts, writes profiles and works on multimedia projects. He has worked as a courtroom reporter in Los Angeles, a sports writer in Santa Maria and his first Chronicle job was as a paperboy... Read More →

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Antonio García Martínez

Antonio García Martínez has been an advisor to Twitter, a product manager for Facebook, the CEO/founder of AdGrok (a venture-backed startup acquired by Twitter), and a strategist for Goldman Sachs. He is still officially on leave from his Berkeley PhD program, and lives on a forty-foot... Read More →


Saturday October 8, 2016 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
American Bookbinders Museum
  Nonfiction   Type: Author Conversation   Venue: Ticketed   Venue: Wheelchair Accessible

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