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Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley  Cover Image Book Book

Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley / Antonio Garcia Martinez.

Summary:

"The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent expose of life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of early social media and online marketing, sharing critical insights into how they are shaping today's world,"--NoveList.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0062458191
  • ISBN: 9780062458193
  • Physical Description: xi, 515 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part One: Disturbing the Peace -- The Undertakers of Capitalism -- The Human Attention Exchange -- Knowing How to Swim -- Abandoning the Shipwreck -- Part Two: Pseudorandomness -- Let Me See Your War Face -- Like Marriage, but without the Fucking -- Speed Is a Feature -- D-Day -- A Conclave of Angels -- The Hill of Sand -- Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre -- ¡No Pasarán! -- The Dog Shit Sandwich -- Victory -- Launching! -- Dates @Twitter -- Acquisition Chicken -- Getting Liked -- Getting Poked -- The Various Futures of the Forking Paths -- Retweets Are Not Endorsements -- The Dotted Line -- Endgame -- Part Three: Move Fast and Break Things -- Boot Camp -- Product Masseur -- Google Delenda Est -- Leaping Headlong -- One Shot, One Kill -- Twice Bitten, Thrice Shy -- Ads Five-Oh -- The Narcissism of Privacy -- Are We Savages or What? -- O Death -- The Barbaric Yawn -- Going Public -- When the Flying Saucers Fail to Appear -- Monetizing the Tumor -- The Great Awakening -- Barbarians at the Gates -- IPA > IPO -- Initial Public Offering: A Reevaluation -- Flash Boys -- Full Frontal Facebook -- Microsoft Shrugged -- Ad Majorem Facebook Gloriam -- Adió, Facebook -- Pandemonium Lost.
Subject: Social media > Marketing.
Online social networks.
Internet industry > Biography.
Internet marketing.
Digital media.
Marketing > Management.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library 338.47 GARCIAMARTINEZ 2016 (Text) 0001002142683 Nonfiction Available -


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