Chaos Monkeys

But they're a nice, clean, walled garden in that if I want to buy Facebook, I got to log into Facebook to do it.

Yeah, and anybody interested in the history of FBX, I always love to recommend Chaos Monkeys, the book.

Have you read that?

Yeah, I haven't read it, but I've certainly gone back and forth with its author on Twitter.

hey welcome back to seven minute books i'm sam and today we're talking about chaos monkeys by antonio garcia martinez it's a memoir about one man's journey through wall street and silicon valley and it asks a pretty uncomfortable question sophie i have to ask why does this book still feel so relevant

Hey there, Sam.

It's relevant because it's not a glossy tech success story.

He uses that as a metaphor for Silicon Valley.

Exactly.

The venture capitalists, the founders, the engineers, they're all chaos monkeys in their own way.

They disrupt industries, they break things, and then they see what survives.

It's a perfect metaphor for an ecosystem that worships growth above all else.

And this one was a fascinating conversation.

Antonio GM, who wrote Chaos Monkeys, that's his Twitter handle, and he was at Meta, now he's at BASE.

Got in this conversation with Josh Ellman, who's a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

And they basically talked about how great ads are going to work for agent agent workflows.