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I'm Feeling Lucky
- The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
- Narrated by: Douglas Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
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 listeners 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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- Olivier
- 14-09-14
A Good Second Book On Google
Three years ago, I read "In the Plex" an excellent book on the development of Google, and which I would recommend as a first book on Google.
But, once you've read a generalist book such as "In the Plex", and if you want to know more about Google, then I would really recommend reading "I'm Feeling Lucky". "I'm Feeling Lucky" is a personal retelling of one person's life at Google from 1999 to 2005 and as such it makes Google come alive as a "real person". One gets to see that all was not pristine' it had turf wars, office politics, and the 2 founders may certainly have been geniuses in many areas, but not definitely in people or organisational management, and one understands why the board forced them to get a CEO.
I would not recommend this as a first book on Google, but wholeheartedly as a follow-up book.
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- At this for too long.
- 05-08-21
Man looks for job, man gets job
A marketing guy gets a job with a company that doesn’t do marketing, so he finds ways to spend his time. The end.
Started this three times, convinced I’d missed something. I hadn’t and, at 15 hours long, it wasn’t worth preserving.
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- Mike Kennedy
- 31-01-20
I'd rather go to the dentist!
Well certainly not someone I would invite to a dinner party. This book was a waste of time, energy and money. I'd rather be eaten by a lion and my still alive body rolled in salt than listen to anymore of this!
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- Andrew
- 16-08-11
Interesting and insightful
For anyone interested in Google or working at an internet based business this book is a must read/listen. Douglas gives a detailed account of his 6 or so years at Google as the business went from a small start up to the massive internet giant it is today. Douglas also reads it excellently and as it is his story you get a better feeling of his feelings about the different things that happened during his time there. Highly recommended.
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- old geek
- 29-05-20
Very pleased with himself
While the tale of what went on inside Google is fascinating, I couldn’t help thinking the author really loved himself and saw everything through that filter.
That really spoiled the story for me and to be honest I unexpectedly couldn’t wait for the end although he only became more entitled on becoming a squillionaire.
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- Ram Prasad Krishnamurthy
- 26-09-18
Just a confession and nothing more..
It sounded to me like a 'cry over the shoulders' autobiography story of a person who did not belong to the place he was in.
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- Pedro Sttau
- 24-07-12
I was there
By the end of the book I felt I had been there, and gone through this torturous yet adventurous journey with Douglas. Amazing narration with a surprisingly honesty and personal side to it.
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- David
- 15-02-24
A brilliant insight into how Google began.
One of the best books I've listened to on Audible. I was hooked from the beginning to end.
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- Beatrice
- 18-02-22
Interesting
Interesting to hear the Google story from a different perspective. Glad I got the book and will listen to it again at some point.
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- Mr. R. D. Cox
- 24-09-21
A very forgiving person
Douglas Edwards reads his own, incredible story, very well.
It is a class lesson in marketing and communications, having to work with bright people, whose lack of knowledge and experience in communications led Douglas to have to explain everything, be overruled, be proven right and not be properly appreciated or respected.
He earned every cent.
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