Early days of Google

摘要

"Once you are lucky, twice you are good." So goes the old cliche about success in Silicon Valley. But Douglas Edwards, an early employee at Google, admits he was just lucky. Joining the then inchoate search company in 1999 as its first marketing executive, Edwards hit what he calls "the startup jackpot". Indeed, he became so wealthy that, as he reveals with the self-effacement characteristic to his writing, he could afford to buy his favourite luxury ice cream even when it wasn't on offer.