How to turn down a billion dollars : the snapchat story
At twenty-one years old, product design student Evan Speigel developed the social network Snapchat. Just two years later, he shocked the world by turning down a three-billion-dollar offer from Facebook. This is the inside story on how Snapchat grew from a dorm room idea into a multi-billion-dollar company. Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars- The Snapchat Story, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework.
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63 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. - Edition Penguin readers edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
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Penguin Readers Level 2: How to Turn down a Billion Dollars (ELT Graded Reader) : The Snapchat Story
With carefully adapted text , new illustrations , language practise activities and additional online resources , the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content . Titles include popular classics , exciting contemporary fiction , and thought-provoking non-fiction . How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars- The Snapchat Story, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to , present continuous for future meaning, and comparatives and superlatives. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages. In 2008, Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy made a photo app called Snapchat. Just two years later, Facebook wanted to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. This is the story of how Snapchat grew from a university student's idea into a multibillion-dollar company.
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