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Some of that has to do with broader market level trends, the end of a post-covid hiring boom, and a softening economy, but AI ...
— Luis von Ahn (@LuisvonAhn) June 13, 2022 Outside of those milestones, Duolingo’s cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn took to Twitter to express pride in some of the company’s accomplishments over the ...
Luis von Ahn is the genius behind CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and also the founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform. Born and ...
Luis von Ahn says Duolingo never would have succeeded with the mindset they teach you in business school. "It works better if it’s a free-for-all," he says. advertisement ...
Latino inventor Luis von Ahn, co-founder of Duolingo and CAPTCHA, won the Lemelson-MIT prize for products that improve society. The Guatemalan-American inventor uses technology to close the ...
Luis von Ahn, creator of Duolingo and a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy of Duolingo When he was 12 years old, Luis von Ahn came up with a plan to make gyms free.
Von Ahn first presented Duolingo on the Disrupt stage nine years ago, with a website and goal to teach 100 million people a new language. Now, nearly a decade later, he’ll be coming back to ...
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn only hires people with five qualities: those who “take the long view,” show and don’t tell, and bring fun into the office. Gen Z “personality hires” bringing ...
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the CEO of Duolingo, Luis von Ahn, about the company joining forces with the Biden administration to help address the root causes of migration from Central America.
Luis von Ahn is a computer scientist. He didn’t know much about education before founding his current startup, Duolingo. To get up to speed, he read a bunch of books about various teaching ...
Luis von Ahn says he wants to translate the Web into every major language: every webpage, every video, and, yes, even Justin Bieber’s tweets.
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn only hires people with five qualities: those who “take the long view,” show and don’t tell, and bring fun into the office.