In a new tell-all book, Antonio Garcia-Martinez uses his experience as a startup founder/CEO of AdGrok, a Facebook product manager, and a twitter advisor to provide readers with a look inside Silicon Valley. Garcia-Martinez joined us on Knowledge at Wharton Show on Sirius XM channel 111 to talk about his book, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley .

An edited transcript of the conversation follows.

Knowledge at Wharton: What are the characteristics that make “chaos monkeys” stand out?

Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Chaos Monkey is actually a piece of software that Netflix created. What it does is, it literally shuts down their own servers. They test whether they can actually still stream, for example, House of Cards . The image you should have is this wild monkey rampaging through a data center, knocking out computers. These days, Silicon Valley is the zoo where the chaos monkeys are kept.…