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The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
July 2011
On Sale: July 12, 2011
432 pages ISBN: 0547416997 EAN: 9780547416991 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a
rocket to an Edsel. No academic analysis or bystander’s
account can capture it. Now Doug Edwards, Employee Number
59, offers the first inside view of Google, giving readers a
chance to fully experience the bizarre mix of camaraderie
and competition at this phenomenal company. Edwards,
Google’s first director of marketing and brand management,
describes it as it happened. We see the first, pioneering
steps of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s young,
idiosyncratic partners; the evolution of the company’s
famously nonhierarchical structure (where every employee
finds a problem to tackle or a feature to create and works
independently); the development of brand identity; the races
to develop and implement each new feature; and the many
ideas that never came to pass. Above all, Edwards—a former
journalist who knows how to write—captures the “Google
Experience,” the rollercoaster ride of being part of a
company creating itself in a whole new universe. I’m Feeling Lucky captures for the first time the unique,
self-invented, yet profoundly important culture of the
world’s most transformative corporation.
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