给选手设计的问题，欢迎大家提意见
Henry Ning 宁湖
Cindy: You have worked so much harder compared to most of your peers . You have participated in a business plan competition during high school, led a group research on the trade relations between China and America, and organized a charity concert for the blind children. The question "what motivates you" must be a question many audience want to ask. There must be more than one thing. Could you tell us about them?
Shubin:
"So, you are starting your own internet company?"
"Have you seen the movie The Social Network?"
"Do you know the central conflict of the plot?"
An entrepreneur usually serves as an intermediary between investor and labor. An entrepreneur does not only come up with an innovative solution to a market demand, but also has to attract and manage talents and resources to make the dream come true. Along the way, there will be many conflicts. One of the most difficult ones is the division of equity shares among the founders.
So, the question is: What are you going to do if your CTO allied with your other teammates and tricked you into signing an agreement to dilute your founder shares down to near zero tomorrow, like what Mark Zuckerberg does to Eduardo Saverin?
Shirley: I once heard an interesting psychological theory: you are what you think other people think you are. But I think you are in a very strange position. You have spent your first nine years in China, and the last nine years in America. The people in China or from China often see you as an American while the Americans see you as a Chinese. In your opinion, what is the best way to position yourself in such cultural context and interact with both Chinese and Americans?
Vivian: You moved quite often in the past. From China, to America, back to China, to Canada, and now you are at Berkeley. Every time you moved, you must have experienced some cultural shocks. How did you deal with those difficult situations that often made you feel inadequate simply because you were new? How did you quickly adapt to the new environments?
Stephen: Hey Stephen, we are buddies, right? Can I tell you something? You suck at interviews and you freaking don't even have a resume. But I still fought so hard to keep you in the show because you possess something so rare, something very few of us have: the ability to hold onto your dream in spite of difficulty, discouragement, and previous failures. As far as your baseball career is concerned, you are like a phoenix, coming back from the dead ashes, even stronger than before. What are some concrete things you would advise others to do when they hit a big roadblock on the way to their dream, just like when you had to have your shoulder surgery?
Tammie: In the first round of interview, I once asked you a question: what makes you different from other people? You said it is your attitude. You always smile to people and want to make other people feel warm. I think it's absolutely a fantastic quality. However, in the professional world, due to intense competition for resources, colleagues could possibly stab each other in the back, and outside competitors might play dirty. How are you going to survive in an environment where people fight like animals?
Ariel: You are the co-chair for the LGBTQIA conference, former vice president for Cal Democrats, and an intern for Obama's campaign. I really appreciate your political activism - empowering the weak and voicing your opinion. At the same time, you are interested in China, learning mandarin and taking a class about China's regional development right now. So let's imagine a scenario: you are organizing the LGBTQIA conference in Beijing to push the government to legalize gay marriage in China. How do you mobilize the politically apathetic Chinese youth to join your cause?
Jordan: Jordan, you are on the debate team, and you are one of the most eloquent Cal students I have ever come across. So the question for you is a little bit harder. Imagine a scenario, Obama and Hu Jintao are in the same room discussing the issue of the imprisonment of the Nobel peace prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo. Now you have one minute to defend both sides' equally. Your job is to sound extremely persuasive when you defend either side and leave the audience completely confused afterward.
--Henry Ning
