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Figma (FIG) shares surged in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, marking a strong public market entry for the design and ...
— 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
But it keeps users hooked, according to Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. Today, the company counts 49.5 million monthly active users—four in five of whom were not learning a ...
Breakthroughs in generative AI have created enormous opportunities for humans to learn from computers. We can use them to explain the news, understand historical concepts, fix our coding errors ...
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 an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is considered one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs, being a ...
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.