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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
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
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Publisher's 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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- Stephen
- 07-20-11
Definitely worth a credit
This follows the author from his hire when Google was a startup until the IPO. It's a parallel story of Google the company and his personal odyssey from being a key player at the beginning to slowly becoming marginalized, and finally shown the door.
Recounting successes and failures, it's fascinating to hear the accounts of when AOL and Yahoo! were the big fish, and Google had to swim carefully to keep from upsetting them.
It's also a fascinating account of being in a company when it's an infant and there are no walls, and watching the company become a corporation. Anyone who's been in an organization during a growth phase has been in the situation where it goes from being this wide open playing field and you can talk to the "big boys and girls" anytime you wish, to watching walls spring up, things start to divide, and finding yourself boxed on the wrong side of the wall. The previously friendly faces are replaced by new people that make power plays to take your authority and slide you into the outer circle until the day you sit across from some person you don't know, being informed you no longer have a place at the company where you were once a key player.
I don't know how much you'll learn about business from this book, except that the founders of Google believed strongly in certain things. They pushed hard for their beliefs, but as much as they tried, Google eventually became another corporate entity. It was still different in a lot of ways, and they challenged a lot of traditional business thinking.
There's more there, I think, than the author intended.
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- Ted
- 08-26-11
A Totally different look at Google
I have to admit that I was somewhat skeptical about this book. A marketing guy's perspective on Google? That's crazy, who cares about that, I thought. But I had just finished a couple other popular books on Google and thought that this might round out my perspective one of the most influential and successful companies of all time.
What I didn't realize was that I would be taken on a tour of Google, from it's childhood through adolescence, as though I were riding on the shoulders of the author. I would listen, mouth agape at the stupidity of running servers without cases on metal racks then marvel at the subtle and not-so-subtle genius exhibited by Googlers. I would learn how a quick hack could lead to billions of dollars of profits but I would also discover that my suspicions about chaotic product management were in fact correct.
"I'm Feeling Lucky" goes where no other Google book dares - it explores the intimately human aspect of a company often characterized as "The Borg." It reveals that Google engineers are not just single-dimensional geeks, but are creative people who share a passion for excellence and doing the "right" thing. But more importantly, it shows us a prime example of how a group of supremely confident and intelligent people can eschew tradition and change the world.
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- Dan Rhode
- 07-26-11
Next great tech drama movie!
Watch out "Social Network" and "Pirates of Siicon Valley" the next great tech movie is contained within the pages this book. I also enjoyed to Jeff Jarvis's "WWGD" and "In the Plex" but this book has great personal drama as well as the interesting Google Story. You can relate the Doug as he takes you on his journey through the world of search, working hard to understand the Google Culture and create a better world. This guy is an awesome writer and a wonderful story teller. I can't wait to see the movie!! I've only written a few reviews but this book is so good I wanted to recommend it to others. This book is not the usual "yada-yada!" Awesome book! Highly recommended!!
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- Jami
- 04-19-14
I'm Feeling Tired
Wow, this was a LONG one. I listened to it on audio and it was over 16 hours; it's a good thing that the narrator was good or I would have given up on it long ago.
I liked the story overall, but there was nothing astounding about it. This told the story from the perspective of the author, who was a marketing employee at Google. I get the trials of being a non-engineer in an engineering company, as I have been in that situation before. There were many sections that I found extremely interesting, such as the controversy over Google Doodles, April Fools jokes, the perks of working there, the magnitude of the operation, and everything that went into the development of the search function. I take it for granted when I go to Google that I will see the box, type in my request, and find what I am looking for. I never thought of it as this complex algorithm that is actually very highly developed. I also never thought of the scope of the manpower and physical equipment that is required to make this happen.
There were no great "confessions" in this book, so maybe I was expecting more of that based on the title. Rather, it was a history of the company and there was no real "dirt" revealed. I found that many names were mentioned and when they came back up again, I could not recall exactly who all of them were. There were also great details about some of the competitors and their skirmishes with Google that I felt went on for way too long. This book definitely would have benefited from editorial work in the area of shortening the story up. When I look back at the entire book, I'm glad that I persevered and finished it, although there were some points where I felt that it was never going to end. Maybe by now, as you are reading this, you are thinking that this review is never ending as well, so on that note, I will conclude!
7 people found this helpful
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- Katherine
- 08-04-11
You'll be the lucky one
One of the funniest books I've ever read. The style is witty, kind and down to earth. A must read for anyone who has ever worked at a start-up. Hearing the story from the author's own mouth adds to the personal feeling of the book. You'll be the lucky one if you take the time to listen to this book.
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- L
- 09-03-11
Highly Amusing
This is not just your yaddah yaddah tell all. I came away tremendously impressed by Google, Douglas Edwards, the Founders and a truly amazing cast of characters making their way in a world of opportunity on a rather bizzare silicon valley playing field. I admit that that I only understand some of technical issues a little better. Nevertheless, if, like me, you have used Google's growing arsenal of tools since its infancy, you will find this a particularly interesting history lesson, even though some of it is going to be over your head too.
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- CEDRIC
- 08-16-11
Fantastic insight!
Written from the insight you discover how google started and became what it is. It's an obliged reading if you want to fully understand google and probably it's future as well. It's well written and shows the human part behind the little box of search in the corner of your browser.
3 people found this helpful
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- Henrik
- 08-15-11
Entertaining
An entertaining, well written personal story of the career-choice of a lifetime. Highlights include the AOL-negotiations and the behind-the-curtain look at the googlers on the annual ski-trip. Edwards doesn't drop any huge bombs or surprises, except how blatantly he describes his sour relationship with Marissa Mayer who cannot be very pleased reading this book.
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- justaguyreviewing
- 08-31-11
Great book, great reading and amazing story.
I just have to say thank you for this book. One of the best business books I've ever read not because it's a business book but because of the insights, opinion, history and detail that was shared by Douglas Edwards about a amazing company that didn't just happen but was built.
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- TM
- 12-05-13
A Job-Culture Mind-Shift
What made the experience of listening to I'm Feeling Lucky the most enjoyable?
It is clearly and unashamedly a single person's perspective of the early part of the Google story. However, what lends credibility to the narrative is the author's openness about his difficulty in transitioning from the ingrained working culture of his previous life, to a new up-is-down, black-might-be-white world of Brin and Page.
Did Google succeed with a great technology product despite this contrarian, unconventional thinking, or because of it?
I'm not sure, but it must have been challenging and fun to be a part of that experience and that is what is conveyed in this book, and that is why I enjoyed it.
What does Douglas Edwards bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I like listening to books read by the author when the author has the voice and skill to pull it off, and Douglas Edwards does a fine job.
Any additional comments?
A fascinating and fun read (listen). I recommend it.
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- Olivier
- 09-14-14
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.
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- Andrew
- 08-16-11
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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- Mike Kennedy
- 01-31-20
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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- Ram Prasad Krishnamurthy
- 09-26-18
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
- 07-24-12
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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- 10-20-20
Surprising insight into Google
By far the most gripping book I've listened to on Audible ever. Don't be discouraged by uninspiring cover, the story, the narration is excellent. Reveals the moral background of Google founders and early employees and gives you a great insight into their motivation to improve things. Awesome!
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- old geek
- 05-29-20
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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- Faye T.
- 02-04-20
Utterly fantastic, I cried at the end
This was a brilliant, engrossing, roller coaster of a book covering the first 5 years of Google. I was totally hooked.
The energy is frenetic and reflected life in Google. I suspect the energy barely subsided after Doug left if tales of Larry and Sergey were anything to go by.
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- I Love Energy
- 09-10-19
Fantastic
I really enjoyed this book start to finish. Fantastic narration by the author and well written. Truly inspiring insight into a start up on its journey to superstar in 5 years. I love it and highly recommend it
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- LC
- 02-18-19
Great insight into how Google was made
This account from the early days of Google to its IPO gives a great account of how Google developed as a company and some of the key behaviours and values that helped it get there.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-06-18
insight into google
what a great insight into the world of google. definitely worth listenting to. I couldn't stop listening
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- Joe Neutral
- 01-11-18
Great story of the success of Google.
Really good view into the early days of Google and the relentless desire for success and "the right thing"