I'm feeling lucky : the confessions of Google employee number 59

 by Douglas Edwards.  In 1999, Edwards left his stable marketing position at the San Jose Mercury News to take a pay cut and a chance on an upstart Internet company called Google. Although his previous company was a highly structured organization, with measured decisions made by committee around a boardroom table with the publisher presiding, the founders of Google took a radically different approach, treating all employees as equals and giving them free reign to solve problems creatively on their own. Google partners Larry Page and Sergey Brin took their engineering vision to the extreme, valuing perfection and efficiency over marketing hype with their motto, Don't be evil. Although there have been many journalistic examinations of the world's most valuable Internet brand, this is the first to capture the process and the feeling of what it was like to be there in the early days. Edwards describes living the dream on a day-to-day basis and describes many of the key players who created the Google search engine: their roles,personalities, and the mix of camaraderie and cutthroat competition at the company. --Booklist (Check Catalog)