Antonio Garcia-Martinez
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Antonio is CEO and co-founder of
AdGrok,
a VC-backed startup founded with the express purpose of
helping small businesses do online marketing. Before AdGrok, Antonio
was a research scientist at a Bay Area digital marketing agency,
writing bidding algorithms for online advertising exchanges. Prior to
marketing, he was a pricing quant on Goldman Sachs’ credit and equity
trading floors, modeling credit-default swaps and various other
weapons of financial destruction. He arrived on Wall Street as a
young, naive physics Ph.D. student, and regrets the day he ever read
Liar’s Poker. When not grokking, he tries to play squash and sail his
26-foot sloop Moksha.

Blog Entries by Antonio Garcia-Martinez

Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously

Posted October 8, 2010 | 00:34:35 (EST)

Forms, forms, everywhere are forms

Filling out an online form can change your life.

I filled out two such forms. One was an online dating profile at Match.com around June 2009. The second was the application to Y Combinator in February 2010

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Startup Founders And F*ck You, Money

Posted August 16, 2010 | 17:38:12 (EST)

Startup founders are in the unique position of having to seriously ask themselves the following cocktail party question: how much money would you need to live comfortably on for the rest of your life?

That amount, whatever it might be, is known in the trade as 'fuck-you money,' i.e., the...

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