Early Google Hire Tells All

Adweek: You left Google after its IPO in 2005. Why publish your book [I’m Feeling Lucky: Confessions of Google Employee Number 59] now? I kind of went back and forth on it. But after a couple of years, I just kept bumping into Google everywhere. I kept seeing the logo, I kept using it, I kept finding it mentioned in movies. And I had all of this background information in my head about how Google came to be and I just felt like I would never get it out my head until I actually put it on paper. It was somewhat therapeutic. An exorcism perhaps. You came to Google as an English major among engineers. You left as the “voice” of the company. How did it change you? Google really put an emphasis on not just solving the problem that was immediately in front of you but solving something that was larger and a step beyond. It also made me a lot more impatient with the world. The emphasis on speed and productivity and solving problems makes you realize just how many things could be better if people just put a little bit more effort into them in our daily lives. What do you consider to be your biggest contribution to Google? I think overall my role in giving Google more of a human voice and making it more than just a collection of software and hardware. And I don’t take full credit for that—clearly, Larry and Sergey were the ones whose voice I was channeling. But giving that expression and helping Google communicate with its users in a way that was not intimidating and made it very... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

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