How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars

The Snapchat Story (Level 2 Penguin Reader)

Billy Gallagher

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Penguin
17 September 2019

ELT background readers; Work & world of industry Children's & Young Adult; Science & technology: general interest (Children's&YA); Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language; English as a Second Language

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language.

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.

By: Billy Gallagher
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 194mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 60g
ISBN: 9780241397725
ISBN 10: 0241397723
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 17 September 2019
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Young adult , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , English as a second language , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Billy Gallagher is an MBA candidate at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He has worked in venture capital and as a writer at TechCrunch, which he joined as a Stanford sophomore, writing a profile of a popular startup on campus- Snapchat. Billy wrote over a dozen exclusive pieces on Snapchat. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times and Playboy.