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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 34:18 Cliff Weitzman And Duolingo did this really well.
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25:49 Harry Stebbings I'm gonna be so honest, I just couldn't take, for the last few weeks, it's been gnawing at me so much, my Figma and Duolingo positions, I was like, you know what, I've just had enough, I've had enough after this conversation, I'm selling… 3 times in the scene
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:06 Harry Stebbings And so, I see what you see in terms of the opportunity, but I'm like, I have no idea where this is going to go, and honestly, a month ago, I was looking at Duolingo going, wow, what a buying opportunity, and the lesson I have on Duo is,…
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:47 Harry Stebbings So like for me, I look at it as a load of companies like you, Duo, and a load of others where I'm like crazily mispriced assets.
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:55 Harry Stebbings If we, if we look at like a duo, a Monday, and a van, these businesses, they're all doing okay to decent, actually, but the price is through the floor, and we keep on saying, oh my god, it can't go lower, and it does.
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:25 Harry Stebbings Because we've got your Mondays, your duos, your workdays, your HubSpots that, I mean, I, the Sassica's real. 2 times in the scene
20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
- ▶ 9:44 Harry Stebbings But as a designer today, like I had the, the CPO of Duolingo on the show, he was fantastic.
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:16 Harry Stebbings Does this not go to what you, does this not go to what you said though before, Jason, very well, which is like, one, unless you're co-attached to AI, or unless you're replacing labor, you're gonna get hit, a la Duolingo, a la Monday, both…
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:30 Harry Stebbings You know, sadly, I'm a big shareholder in monday.com, in Duolingo, and you know, one of our recent guests who's a dear friend of mine is like, yeah, but that's exactly the problem.
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:47 Harry Stebbings As a Duolingo shareholder, I'm feeling the pain.
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:46 Harry Stebbings Duolingo.
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:22 Harry Stebbings I'm a duo shareholder. 10 times in the scene
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 39:30 Harry Stebbings It's Duolingo, it's Uber, it's Shopify, it's Facebook, it's insane, and you, honestly, it's not discussed much, which I find strange.
- ▶ 49:59 Harry Stebbings Did you hold on to Duo? 2 times in the scene
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 1:10:20 Sandy Diao For example, if you're building a mobile game, if you get a push notification when you've lost the game, or just as you've finished your Duolingo lesson, or forgot a streak, and it reminds you to come back, I think those are really,
20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
- ▶ 47:13 Harry Stebbings And, you know, I think Duolingo has been so successful because they have such good retention numbers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:53 Harry Stebbings Actually, yeah, one who's amazing is Zaria Parvez, who's, um, Duolingo. 3 times in the scene
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:18 Harry Stebbings I interviewed the CPO at Duolingo for 20 Products, and he actually said how two designers, not traditionally ones who actually come up with, obviously, building products from day one, um, 2 times in the scene
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 54:24 Fernando Fanton Hey, you did, you know, Duolingo does this, right? 4 times in the scene
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 55:29 Harry Stebbings And, you know, I had the founder of Duolingo on the show the other day, and they said bluntly that the public markets puts a label on you.
20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Today, we've got one of the best joining us in Jem Kansu, CPO at Duolingo, one of my favorites at Duolingo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings He's launched Duolingo Math and the wildly successful Duolingo Music.
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings He's launched Duolingo Math and the wildly successful Duolingo Music.
- ▶ 3:51 Harry Stebbings I just mentioned it, but I freaking love the Duolingo product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:40 Harry Stebbings Can you take me to the moment you actually joined Duolingo? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:44 Harry Stebbings What does the design process look like for you today at Duolingo? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 Harry Stebbings And he told me about like two of the, I think it was PMs who came up with the idea for chess and brought that forward. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:42 Cem Kansu We tested it and we're like, this is a pretty good Duolingo lesson. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Cem Kansu Our experience with doing this is, was with math and music before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Cem Kansu Our experience with doing this is, was with math and music before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Cem Kansu Or like Duolingo, we bake it into how we think about performance. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:43 Cem Kansu One of them is Duolingo obviously has a very strong mission today, and that certainly was the case then. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:30 Cem Kansu and it's 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:03 Cem Kansu Now there's super, there's family plan, there's max. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:53 Cem Kansu Certainly something that is an upgrade to a consumer experience, like Duolingo, going from free Duolingo to super Duolingo or Duolingo Max. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:33 Harry Stebbings What revenue line does Duolingo not have today that will be meaningful in five years? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:12 Cem Kansu So we have a virtual currency, it's called Gems, it's not named after me, it's the actual diamond gems. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:08 Cem Kansu They don't want to lose it, but if for one reason or another you can't do Duolingo that day, you can use a streak freeze. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:59 Cem Kansu So if you really squint at a business like Duolingo, you have to look at two metrics. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:25 Harry Stebbings We can do a Duolingo school in New York. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:08 Cem Kansu So those are the apps I'm, when I use them, I get ideas for me to think about for Duolingo. 5 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:04 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Duolingo there, and we kind of go forth on this. 3 times in the scene
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Severin Hacker But I can guarantee you Duolingo would not have been able to raise any money in Europe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08 Harry Stebbings Duolingo came out as being AI first the other day, and I really just wanted to start with what does that mean and what does that not mean so people have a clear understanding? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:08 Harry Stebbings How we do everything and reshape the organization of this company towards being an AI driven company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:10 unnamed speaker Um, there's, you know, one of the most amazing things about Duolingo is we have this massive user base. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:35 Harry Stebbings How has the way that you build internally in Duolingo changed with AI? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:58 unnamed speaker Not a problem if they hallucinate, because we teach languages. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 Harry Stebbings Do you think you will have more or less software engineers in five years time at Duolingo? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:15 Severin Hacker And, and we're actually not doing that at Duolingo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:58 Harry Stebbings How does AI change customer support processes workloads within Duolingo? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:03 Severin Hacker So as I explained before, there's these three use cases at Duolingo.
- ▶ 26:53 Severin Hacker We have, um, you know, the free tier, there's super, and there's max, and it's mostly in our max, the higher tier subscription, uh, because of that reason, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:33 Harry Stebbings When I hear you say about, like, 11 Labs there, or Decagon there, or even think about Duolingo, the thing that I am struck with is, ah, but OpenAI are gonna do that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:50 unnamed speaker And then, and then I think there was actually a similar thing where people say, oh, well, you know, Duolingo is in education. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:23 Harry Stebbings Is there anything within Duolingo that's a second-class citizen that you wish you could make a first-class citizen? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:29 Severin Hacker We built a new math app. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:33 Severin Hacker So there was Duolingo, the main app, and there was an entirely new math app. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:14 Severin Hacker And then insight number two is for the user, it was also not a great experience because A, you first had to find, well, first you had to know that Dueling had a math app, then you had to find an app store, then you had to download it, then…
- ▶ 39:39 unnamed speaker And so we believe it, it, it fits the, within the mission of Duolingo at Summer One. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:49 Severin Hacker People love Duolingo. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:09 Severin Hacker One thing we're also very passionate about is, is the Duolingo score. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:18 Harry Stebbings And I wish that Duolingo had this, for every day you don't do your streak,
- ▶ 51:23 Severin Hacker So you need to have someone who's obsessed with details in, in Duolingo that it, that is Luis, uh, to this day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:19 Severin Hacker I think I was building Duolingo and then it, it morphed more into, um, more like into, into codery architecture and how to build the backend system and all that system design.
- ▶ 54:43 Severin Hacker So literally, you know, everyone, everyone knows Duolingo at this point, uh, worldwide. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:53 Severin Hacker What is the implications for Duolingo?
- ▶ 1:03:13 Severin Hacker Um, for, for example, Luis and I, we had been working, uh, together on, you know, research for two years prior to starting Duolingo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:34 Harry Stebbings Is it like Uber and Lyft where Uber takes 90% and everyone else takes 10% and that's duo and everyone else? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:33 Severin Hacker It's just like, it, it just, and I, I, I can say this because we, we built Duolingo in Pittsburgh. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:34 Severin Hacker Yeah, so Duolingo does not have an office in Silicon Valley or anywhere in California, and the reason is, when we thought about opening one, and of course all of our investors, they said, you gotta open an SF office, and we in fact did go…
- ▶ 1:16:27 Harry Stebbings If you could go back to the early days of Duolingo and do something differently, what would you do? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:38 Harry Stebbings Duo were private today. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:33 Harry Stebbings Um, what's the biggest near death experience with duo?
- ▶ 1:36:10 Severin Hacker Why is tooling so successful? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:13 Severin Hacker You know, one, one thing I would say is, and you know, that's one of the reasons why I, I, I said yes to this podcast or why I wanted to be on this podcast is I feel like I'm, I'm reduced to just Duolingo, you know, as like my identity is… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:23 Harry Stebbings When I ask you that for Duo, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49:18 Severin Hacker Even if, you know, even if Doolingo collapses tomorrow, it's still, still a good thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:51:10 Severin Hacker You know, date someone now, because again, everybody, like, everything starts with this, oh, co-founder of Duolingo, and then, you know, super successful, everybody, well, everybody knows Duolingo. 3 times in the scene
20Product: Figma CPO on How Figma Builds Products: What Works, What Does Not | How Figma Does Testing and Product Reviews | The Future of Design, Engineering and Product with Yuhki Yamashita
- ▶ 24:23 Harry Stebbings You know, we had Duolingo on the other day and they said, hey, everyone's on Cursor.
- ▶ 57:05 Harry Stebbings So like, for me, it was actually Duolingo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:44 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and stay tuned for an incredible episode with the founder of Duolingo on Monday.
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:09 Harry Stebbings Public markets, I had the founder of Duolingo on the show recently, very clearly said, hey, public markets take a very binary approach to AI. 4 times in the scene
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:40 Jason Lemkin Fiverr, Shopify, like, uh, uh, Duolingo.
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:54 Victor Lazarte Duolingo. 4 times in the scene
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:54 Harry Stebbings I think Duolingo is three 65, they're 50%. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:19 Raman Malik Dropbox, Dropbox, like with the referral program, Groupon and email, Pinterest and SEO, Duolingo, and just like a totally unhinged social media, right?
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:31 unnamed speaker Firstly, they had a very deep understanding of our business model because of previous investment to Duolingo and HSCom and similar companies, and it's really rare to see investors with deep understanding of consumer subscriptions. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:37 Dmitry Gurski What's the difference between Fluor and Duolingo? 5 times in the scene
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:52 Phil Carter There are the outliers, like, let's say, Duolingo, Tinder, Strava.
- ▶ 34:40 Harry Stebbings I mean, I'm gonna butcher this, and I hope Lewis at Duolingo doesn't sue me, but I think, like, you know, retention rates on Duolingo is like, 50% for 12 months, and that's considered great. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:52 Harry Stebbings There might be one like Duolingo, and maybe a couple more? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:31 Phil Carter And so for products like Duolingo, some of the most important drivers for Duolingo's product are things like, um, achievement. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:09 Phil Carter Yeah, so I think it's a double-edged sword, and I hate to keep going back to Duolingo, but they are one of the biggest success stories in consumer subscription, so I will in this case. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:32 Phil Carter Like you're not going to go into Duolingo or Strava or tender and talk about paywall view rate and find anybody who's surprised by this.
Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:28 Harry Stebbings You know, when you look at their releases last week, you're looking at language learning cheaters and going, fuck, did you a lingo have a business anymore? 4 times in the scene
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:58 Erik Allebest You know, more though, I would say we're, we're starting to, you know, Duolingo, you know, their current metric was super valuable.
Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Zaria Parvez I always say the reason why our TikTok was so successful is because This is Zaria Parvez, the creative genius behind Duolingo's viral TikTok account. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08 Harry Stebbings Um, so tell me, you know, we see Duolingo's content today. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:02 Zaria Parvez And I remember so distinctly thinking that if people are on TikTok, they're not on our app. 4 times in the scene
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