Former Facebook employee reveals experiences of Silicon Valley's 'privileged' culture

Thu, 03 Nov 2016
Rianna Fulham
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Former Facebook employee reveals experiences of Silicon Valley's 'privileged' culture

Antonio Garcia Martinez, former Product Manager for FBX – the ad exchange programme Facebook shut down earlier this year – has dished the truth on working at Silicon Valley.

Martinez, also the author of ‘Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley,’ spoke on the latest episode of the Wall Street Journal Media Mix podcast, and revealed that Facebook’s pivot to mobile was what “saved” the company.

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