Employee Number Four
Loving and Leaving Google
$47.14
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2027
Summary
For fans of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog, a satirical memoir in which Google’s fourth employee recounts first navigating a tumultuous childhood, then finding herself in a front-row seat as her brilliant friends make high-tech history—and change the world.
With her spotty work history and seemingly useless art degree, Heather Cairns was not an obvious hire for a tech start-up that would one day change the world as we know it. But Cairns’s turbulent, lower-middle-class upbringing and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896363705 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Heather Cairns |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“If you want to LOL and get an insider’s take on Google’s early days, Employee Number Four is the book for you.”—David A. Vise, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Google Story
“Heather Cairns has written an honest account of what it was actually like—before the IPO, before the mythology. Reading this made me miss who we all were.”—Charlie Ayers, Google’s first executive chef and author of Food 2.0
“This book fills in everything I didn’t know—and makes Heather all the more remarkable for it. A pitch-perfect account of what it takes to leave the known world behind.”—Doug Edwards, Google employee #59 and author of I’m Feeling Lucky
Heather Cairns
Heather Cairns was an unlikely hire when she was recruited by Google’s founders to implement and run HR practices in 1998, but she ultimately became one of the original champions of what is now a global search giant. She holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, a certificate in HR from UC Berkeley, and a Post Baccalaureate Certificate from SMFA in Boston. The founder of Pleasant Steet LLC, which builds much-needed senior housing, Heather lives in the same historic seaside town north of Boston where she grew up.
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