I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 Paperback - 2012
by Edwards, Douglas
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The first inside view of life at Google from one of its original employees—Employee #59—captures the emotions and tensions as the company's young partners race to break rules, defy conventional wisdom, and rocket their company to the top.
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Details
- Title I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
- Author Edwards, Douglas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books
- Date 2012-04-03
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR007100571
- ISBN 9780547737393 / 0547737394
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Social Media Personalities
- Library of Congress subjects Web search engines, Internet industry - United States - History
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
“An exciting story [that] shines light on the inner workings of the fledgling Google and on the personalities of its founders.”—The Daily Beast
In its infancy, Google embraced extremes—endless days fueled by unlimited free food, nonstop data-based debates, and blood-letting hockey games. The company’s fresh-from-grad-school leaders sought more than old notions of success; they wanted to make all the information in the world available to everyone—instantly. Google, like the Big Bang, was a singularity—an explosive release of raw intelligence and unequaled creative energy—and while others have described what Google accomplished, no one has explained how it felt to be a part of it. Until now.
As employee number 59, Douglas Edwards was a key part of Google’s earliest days. Experience the unnerving mix of camaraderie and competition as Larry Page and Sergey Brin create a famously nonhierarchical structure, fight against conventional wisdom, and race to implement myriad new features while coolly burying broken ideas. I’m Feeling Lucky captures the self-created culture of the world’s most transformative corporation and offers unique access to the emotions experienced by those who virtually overnight built one of the world’s best-known brands.
“Edwards does an excellent job of telling his story with a fun, outsider-insider voice. The writing is sharp.”—Boston Globe
“An affectionate, compulsively readable recounting of the early years of Google.”—Publishers Weekly
From the jacket flap
Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to an Edsel. In its infancy, Google embraced extremes endless days fueled by unlimited free food, nonstop data-based debates, and blood-letting hockey games. The company s fresh-from-grad-school leaders sought more than old notions of success; they wanted to make all the information in the world available to everyone instantly. Google, like the Big Bang, was a singularity an explosive release of raw intelligence and unequaled creative energy and while others have described what Google accomplished, no one has explained how it felt to be a part of it. Until now.
Douglas Edwards, employee number 59, offers the first inside view of what it was like to be a Googler. Experience the unnerving mix of camaraderie and competition as Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company s idiosyncratic young partners, create a famously nonhierarchical structure, fight against conventional wisdom, and race to implement a myriad of new features while coolly burying broken ideas and wounded products. I m Feeling Lucky captures for the first time the self-invented culture of the world s most transformative corporation and offers unique access to the emotions, particularly the tensions, experienced by those who built overnight one of the world s best-known brands.
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