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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 is a 2011 book by Douglas Edwards who was Google's first director of marketing and brand management. The book tells the story of what it was like to be on the inside during the rise of one of the most powerful internet companies from its start-up beginnings.

Reception
In a starred review, Publishers Weekly describes "I'm Feeling Lucky" as: """Affectionate, compulsively readable. . . . This lively, thoughtful business memoir is more entertaining than it really has any right to be, and should be required reading for startup aficionados." Rich Jaroslovsky for "Bloomberg News" calls the book: ""[A] highly entertaining new memoir...I’m Feeling Lucky is at its best, and most hilarious, in its account of the company’s earliest days." At "The Boston Globe," Jesse Singal's review reads: """Edwards does an excellent job of telling his story with a fun, outsider-insider voice. The writing is sharp and takes full advantage of the fact that Edwards was in a unique position to gauge Google’s strengths and weaknesses, coming as he did from an "old-media’’ background...Part of what makes the book so rewarding is Edwards’s endlessly nuanced take on his former company and its employees"" David A. Price for The Wall Street Journal writes: "Mr. Edwards succeeds in recreating a lost era of the online industry." Josh Dzieza for The Daily Beast writes: "It's an exciting story, and it shines light on the inner workings of the fledgling Google and on the personalities of its founders."