Antonio García Martínez
Director of Ads, Base (Coinbase). On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He is the author of the bestselling memoir Chaos Monkeys, drawing on his career founding AdGrok and working as an early ad product manager at Facebook. After founding the Web3 ad-attribution startup Spindl, he joined Coinbase to lead advertising efforts on Base.
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58said about them ↓ Everything Antonio García Martínez said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Garcia Martinez: Russia cannot win the war in Ukraine
“I don't see how the Russians win this. Like, this just seems impossible.”
Garcia Martinez: Old left and new right share anti-U.S. foreign policy
“The last thing I would say is, I think one thing that unites, I think, the old left that you would probably put yourself into, in with Glenn, like a Bernie leftist, and the new right, is that both consider two key things. One, the US can never act abroad in a …”
Garcia Martinez: NATO expanded due to Russian aggression, not vice versa
“Russia's not aggressive because, so hold on a second, let me finish the thought. Right, right, no, hold on. Russia's, let me respond to the point that you've sat there for two minutes staring at. Russia is not surrounded by NATO. Russia isn't aggressive becaus…”
Garcia Martinez: U.S. should not push for negotiated peace in Ukraine
“No. I think the war stops and the Ukrainians want it to stop.”
García Martínez: People will be famous to 15 people, not for 15 minutes
“In the future, we're not all going to be famous for 15 minutes. We're all going to be famous to 15 people.”
García Martínez: AI agents will upstream the entire consumer experience
“That's, I think, I mean, I would literally bet large portions of my net worth in time, but that's the future, but that's gonna be the gateway. That's how they're AI is gonna upstream everything about the consumer experience.”
Garcia Martinez: Western Ukraine is no more dangerous than San Francisco
“Western part of Ukraine, which, by the way, is not particularly dangerous or anything. It's probably no more dangerous than walking across San Francisco these days, to be honest.”
Garcia Martinez: Eastern Ukraine is not pro-Russian
“It's not the case that eastern Ukraine is pro-Russian.”
García Martínez: Over-financialization destroys the social dimension of products
“If you over-financialize things, it loses the social side of it, which crypto does a lot.”
García Martínez: The internet is breaking down the nation state
“I think the nation state is kind of cracking up in a way just to get do more for a second. And I think the internet's definitely behind part of it because you don't have the sense of collective consensus that the media and TV, for example, Used to create durin…”
García Martínez: No novel since 'The Corrections' achieved mass readership
“Since then, it's never been the case that everyone's read the same book at all.”
García Martínez: Balaji's political 'defragmentation' theory is practically unrealistic
“I think the realities of that are a little challenging, but it's an interesting thought experiment to imagine that if you were to do that, Right, in some magical way, then you would end up with a holy red and a holy blue country or something.”
García Martínez: Facebook is running out of new human users
“And I can see that the ad tech industry is completely rapacious towards the end of chaos monkeys, or I think in the like afterward that I wrote in the second edition or whatever it was, I mentioned that like Facebook is running out of people, right?”
García Martínez: At least 97% of Instagram ad viewers do not engage
“You know, the CTR, the click through rate, like how often a user engages on a thing like Instagram, at least 97% of people who looked at it. We're just completely indifferent to the thing.”
The other half of the tape: Antonio García Martínez's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 55 times in 19 episodes across the shows. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most David Sacks 33Jason Calacanis 16Glenn Greenwald 4Ryan Petersen 1Chamath Palihapitiya 1
Statements about Antonio García Martínez, by other people (3)
Greenwald: 80% of Americans support mainstream Ukraine narrative
“80% of Americans, the entire bipartisan class in Washington of both parties, are essentially unified in support of the narrative that Antonio believes, in my opinion, with great sincerity.”
Calacanis: Antonio García Martínez will probably receive a $10M settlement from Apple
“And of course, this led to a petition at Apple, which then led to him being fired, which now is going to lead to him probably getting a 10 million dollar settlement.”
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2022 34 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- #AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
- E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- #AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
- #AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 21 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- E40: A Bestie gets COVID, Delta breakthrough, Billionaire Space Race & more
- E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
- E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2021 →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Antonio's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 a16zLEDGER | Director of Ads, Base (Coinbase) | 1 | 9 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Director of Ads, Base (Coinbase) | 1 | 7 | — | full record on All-In → |