VIP Class Notes (Mark) [S]

At the time, I had two offers: one is from Google and the other one is from Uber, which was basically a Rockstar start-up at that moment, and it was pre-IPO. So I was having a very difficult decision at that time. Basically, choosing between these two offers means choosing between two lifestyles. Working for Google is more like a safe choice, where you were compensated really well, having a decent life, great work/life balance, but lacking of some kind of excitement. And working for Uber, which was basically the opposite, where as you can kind riding the roller coaster. I mean not as much as when Uber just got started, cuz at that time Uber was having three to five thousand employees. So, it’s not a real start up anymore, but still much smaller than Google. At that time I was so hesitated on making the decision, so I talked with a bunch of people, probably more than ten people with different backgrounds, and tries to gather their input on which shall I choose.

Revised

At the time, I had two offers: one was from Google and the other was from Uber, which was basically a Rockstar start-up at that moment, and it was pre-IPO. So I had a very difficult decision at that time. Basically, choosing between these two offers means choosing between two lifestyles. Working for Google is more like a safe choice, where you are / would be compensated really well, have a decent life, great work/life balance, but lack some kind of excitement. And working for Uber, which was / would be basically the opposite, where you would have been kind of riding the / a roller coaster / it would be like a roller coaster ride. I mean not as much as when Uber just got started, cuz at that time Uber had three to five thousand employees. So, it wasn’t (really) a real start-up anymore, but still much smaller than Google. At that time, I was so hesitant on making / I hesitated when making the decision, so I talked with a bunch of people, probably more than ten people with different backgrounds, and tried to gather their input on which I should choose.

Grammar

I was doing – used when something happens in the past within another time / like “did” but a period
eg. when I was having class, my friend called me.
eg2. I went to the park and saw a man walking – walking = period, saw = specific past time.
I did – used to describe a specific time in the past

Pronunciation

IPO – sounded like IBO

Difficult – focus on a harder IF sound

Decision – “di si zhun” – focus on the i sound of a word like “IF”, and the c should sound like the s in “scissor”

Excitement – “eck sigh ted” – focus on the “eck” sound of a word like “deck” or “trek”

Bunch – focus on the u sound of a word like “uncle”

Process – focus on the o sound of a word like “frog”

Hiring – “higher ring”

Comfortable – “kum fter bull” – focus on the o sounding like the u in “sum” and pronouncing the second syllable as “fter”

Culture – “cull cher” – focus on the u sound of a word like “dull”

Pronunciation Practice

Casual (ca zhu ul)

Visual (vi zhu ul)

Video (vi dee o)

Words that end in L – trouble, truffle, struggle, scuffle, full, dull, pull, fall, ball, tall