As someone who will soon start working at Google, I had big expectations for this book. I thought this book would enlist the inner workings of Google and its parent company alphabet. I expected this book to be the single greatest management book ever.

Sadly though, my expectations were not met. The author spent 300 pages telling us how cool Google is, and how easy it is to replicate its success. But that's far from true. I think Google is one in a million company, that had many different things that made it successful, so it is hard to attribute its success to only the few things mentioned in this book.

I'm also not really sure who this book is for. I think it was meant to be read by startup founders, but I think employees at bigger and smaller companies would also find value in some of the content. Some chapters deal with issues that only late stage companies deal with so I'm really confused.

Overall, I think you'd be fine if you skip the book.