New career search provides Google outsider’s lucky break

I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

However, to an outsider, it looked anarchic. And Douglas Edwards, who packed in a promising career mid-trajectory to try his hand at this startup thing, was a Google outsider.

An English major who arrived at marketing by default, Edwards quit a newspaper job to go and work for a search engine with no chance run by a “bunch of college kids”. He became Google’s first director of consumer marketing and brand management.