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The story
What is the inspiration for creating The Untaught Lessons?
I did everything according to the book. Electrical engineering at Maryland. Master's at Georgia Tech. MBA at Wharton. Summers full of internships. I worked hard and studied hard.
And then I got into the real world and realized no one had taught me the things that actually determined whether you got heard, got promoted or got passed over. Seemingly simple questions stumped me as I was not able to break down problems clearly in my head. Even when the logic was clear in my head, I could not land it in a way that gave others confidence.
Maryland and Georgia Tech taught me engineering. Wharton taught me finance. But no one taught me how to structure my thinking under pressure, how to move people with my words, or how to walk into a room and own it.
Those were the skills that separated the people who rose from the people who stalled, and almost no one was teaching them.
That gap is why The Untaught Lessons exists. The goal is to bring these lessons and their impact to a broader audience.
The founder
Meet Wen-Szu
Wen-Szu Lin
Founder, The Untaught Lessons
After losing millions of dollars in his thirties, Wen-Szu was forced to reset his career in a foreign country with no tangible assets, no job leads, and no proven corporate record. What he did have were the lessons on how to deliver under pressure.
Before that reset, and after it, Wen-Szu built a career that spanned continents and industries. He served as Senior Director of Community Operations at Uber Technologies, where from 2014 to 2026 he built, grew and managed teams of thousands across Australia, New Zealand, India, North Asia, Southeast Asia and China. Before Uber, he was the China Master Franchisee for Auntie Anne's Pretzels, opening 12 stores across 5 cities. That experience, daunting and ultimately unsuccessful, became the subject of his first book, The China Twist. His other professional experiences include management consulting, engineering and a short but memorable stint as a noodle chef.
He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
Today, Wen-Szu is an investor focused on helping homegrown concepts scale. He is married with two children and lives in Manila, Philippines. In his spare time he enjoys jogging, tasting bourbons and wines, and backing early stage startups.
The proof
The feedback was consistent
The proof came from the people.
At Uber, thousands of people across the world were exposed to early versions of these materials. The feedback was consistent and sometimes life changing. For some, it meant learning new ways of structuring problems. For others, it completely rewired how they showed up at work. Many described a level of clarity and confidence that no classroom had given them.
That response led to the book Deliver: The Untaught Lessons to Growth Hack Your Career. And then to the program Think, speak and act like an executive, now available online for students, working professionals, and organizations.
Across the live workshops alone, the results were remarkable.
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