How (Not) to Succeed in Silicon Valley, USA

Our next speaker, Antonio Garcia, founded a company, sold it to Twitter, built part of Facebook’s monetization system, and made a mountain of mistakes along the way. Antonio will tell us the painful lessons from his five years in the San Francisco startup scene. His pain is our gain!

Sign up here: http://www.meetup.com/LeanStartupBCN/events/220257830/

For more on Antonio’s background:

“Most recently, I was VP of Product at Nanigans, Facebook’s largest ads partner, where I built their programmatic ad-buying platform.

Before Nanigans, I designed, built, and managed Facebook Exchange (FBX), Facebook’s real-time ad exchange.

Prior to FBX, I was Facebook’s first ads targeting product manager, responsible for all Facebook ads targeting, as well as product manager for Custom Audiences, Facebook’s offline data-matching targeting service.

Before going ‘big company’, I founded AdGrok, a search marketing startup backed by Y Combinator, Chris Sacca and others, which was acquired by Twitter in 2011. Speaking of boom and bust, my first real job was pricing credit derivatives as a financial quant on Goldman Sachs’ trading desk during the credit crisis. I’m still on leave from the physics Ph.D. program at University of California-Berkeley.

I’m based either in Barcelona or wherever my 32-foot sailboat Ayala is moored.

Follow me at: @antoniogm.”

For more, check out his website: http://pseudorandomly.com/

Event signup: http://www.meetup.com/LeanStartupBCN/events/220257830/