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Antonio García Martínez's controversial exit from Apple

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Antonio García Martínez used to work at Facebook, and wrote a book about it. In April, he started working at Apple, and weeks later he was gone, after Apple employees revolted. Martinez talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about why he went to work for Apple, why he left, and what he thinks of the criticism of him and his writing. Featuring: Antonio Garcia Martinez (@antoniogm) Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.3

antonio garcia martinez hello antonio hello, Peter. This is the last and a long line of conversations we've had, sometimes with beer and sometimes without. We have done both. I want to introduce you for the audience. I think most people listening to this will know who you are. But so we get it out of the way, you were a former Facebook executive. You wrote a book about your time there.

1:28.6

It was called Chaos Monkeys.

1:29.9

We'll talk about that book.

1:31.3

You were recently an Apple employee until Tuesday when you say you were fired.

1:36.3

I think the language Apple has used as you parted ways.

1:40.2

And you said you were fired because Apple employees didn't like the fact that you were hired there.

1:46.0

And now you're talking to us.

1:47.2

Thank you for joining us.

1:48.3

I want to talk to you about all of that.

1:50.6

Let's just start with the chronology.

1:51.9

You have just tweeted out a version of your chronology.

1:55.4

You said Apple reached out to you to work on a new ads product, ads privacy product. When was that? When did they

2:02.1

reach out to you? It's been a long conversation. It would have been probably early this year,

2:07.5

January, February. It's a friend of mine, a professional colleague who reached out. It was a long

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