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-- I am feeling lucky2011., General, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 338.7 E26i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to an Edsel. Edwards, Employee Number 59, offers the first inside view of Google, giving readers 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.
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By Pao, Ellen K2017., General, Spiegel & Grau Call No: Bio P211r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 2015, Ellen K. Pao sued a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit exposed the tech world's toxic culture and its homogeneity. Her message overcame negative PR attacks that took aim at her professional conduct and her personal life, and she won widespread public support. Though Pao lost her suit, she revolutionized the conversation at tech offices, in the media, and around the world. The daughter of immigrants, Pao was taught that through hard work she could achieve her dreams. She earned multiple Ivy League degrees, worked at top startups, and in 2005 was recruited by Kleiner Perkins, arguably the world's leading venture capital firm at the time. In many ways, she did everything right, and yet she and other women and people of color were excluded from success - cut out of decisive meetings and email discussions, uninvited to CEO dinners and lavish networking trips, and had their work undercut or appropriated by male executives. It was time for a system reset. After Kleiner, Pao became CEO of reddit, where she took forceful action to change the status quo for the company and its product. She banned revenge porn and unauthorized nude photos - an action other large media sites later followed - and shut down parts of reddit over online harassment. Pao shines a light on troubling issues that plague today's workplace and lays out practical, inspiring, and achievable goals for a better future. The story of a whistleblower who aims to empower everyone struggling to be heard, in Silicon Valley and beyond. Ellen Pao graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she earned a Juris Doctor. After two years of working, Pao returned to attend Harvard Business School, where she received an MBA"--Provided by publisher.
