[9] After studying physics in the University of California, Berkeley, García Martínez worked as a pricing quant at Goldman Sachs beginning in September 2005.
Due to the 2008 financial crisis, García Martínez left Goldman Sachs in March 2008 and joined Adchemy as a research scientist in April of that year.
[10] In 2016, García Martínez released a book entitled Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley published by HarperCollins, which is an autobiography that details his career experiences with launching AdGrok, selling it to Twitter, and working at Facebook from its pre-IPO stage.
[20][21] On May 12, Apple confirmed to Axios that García Martínez was no longer employed at the company, stating that it had "always strived to create an inclusive, welcoming workplace."
García Martínez stated that the passage cited in the petition had been quoted out of context and said in a statement that Apple executives were aware of his book, and that his personal references were questioned about his character.