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Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:02 Zaria Parvez Um, and I know this isn't exactly your question, but when we first started our account and we were building content, a big question that we had was like, okay, if we're doing silly stuff, that's like duo crushing over Dua Lipa, how are… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:28 Zaria Parvez I think Duo is a very quirky place in general. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 Zaria Parvez And if I didn't work at Duolingo and if I didn't give a crap about brands, would I want to post this in my group chat?
- ▶ 21:57 Zaria Parvez Like, there was, I mean, like, the, the harsh reality is, is that no one's sitting there missing Duolingo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:31 Zaria Parvez And then the other truth that we have is duo is fricking everywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 Harry Stebbings But if you download the Duolingo app, you can actually learn to say shoulders.
- ▶ 29:05 Zaria Parvez So I was like, all right, how do I get dueling on TikTok? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:41 Zaria Parvez And I think the truth about it, especially for Duolingo is like, these people are not mission driven. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:19 Zaria Parvez And, and I'm not just saying that because I'm sitting in a Duolingo studio right now, like, the fact that I'm even sitting with you, the fact that I've been interviewed time and time again, the fact that, like, I got to be on Forbes, 30…
- ▶ 39:51 Zaria Parvez I remember in my interview at Duolingo when they asked if there are any questions you have, I was like, yeah, if you could do a presentation for 10 minutes on anything that's not about work, no notes, what would it be and why?
- ▶ 47:34 Zaria Parvez Like a lot of people are like Duolingo's always been successful and like Duolingo's this and that, which is so true. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Zaria Parvez So like, for example, the Dua Lipa Thirst Trap, I remember one of our comments being like, the only stuff you'll find on Duolingo Plus, or like Super Duolingo.
- ▶ 54:33 Zaria Parvez Um, but I use it more for like my personal stuff than I would actually for Duolingo. 2 times in the scene
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:01 Gina Gotthilf I led growth at Duolingo from three to two hundred million users before working for the Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign and, you know, co-authored a neuroscience study.
- ▶ 3:22 Gina Gotthilf and then I helped Duolingo grow, and I worked for the Bloomer presidential campaign, and now I started a company that's backed by Andreessen Horowitz, and it sounds really impressive, but most people sort of cut out these, like, B sides to…
- ▶ 8:04 Harry Stebbings Um, okay, so we have that Tumblr journey, and then we have Duolingo. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 Gina Gotthilf Um, so what happened was the team really wanted to, to implement badges on Duolingo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:35 Harry Stebbings What was your North Star metric at Duolingo when you think back to it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:54 Gina Gotthilf Um, and it honestly was the most important lever that helped Tumblr grow in Latin America and that helped Duolingo grow. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:24 Gina Gotthilf Like, like Gina Gotthilf has, um, uh, if I, if I introduce myself to someone, I'll say, hi, Harry, I led growth at Duolingo from three to two hundred million users before working for the Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign, dah, dah, dah,… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:48 unnamed speaker Look, I did a lot of PR in my, in my career at Tumblr, and especially at Duolingo, because every opportunity we got then, we would just milk it, and so, and we would come up with a feature, and then we would come up with a feature in order… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:51 Gina Gotthilf And so that is really, like, the pot of gold, if you can go for it, and, uh, it's worked really well for both Tumblr and for Duolingo, and honestly for Latitude, my company now as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:37 Gina Gotthilf I don't regret any of it, but, um, you know, we had, we had one case where we were doing a global launch with Duolingo and I was doing all of our PR myself, which meant that I had like a little like spreadsheet that had like plenty tabs,…
- ▶ 47:16 Gina Gotthilf So for Duolingo, it was DAUs. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:27 Gina Gotthilf And like, when I was doing, um, press for Duolingo and we were doing these global launches, I was personally writing over a hundred emails at a time, like, to get, like, and it had to be within a window of time because this launch was…
- ▶ 1:01:40 Gina Gotthilf And I feel guilty about that because I do a talk for early stage founders about how Duolingo A-B tested and how we grew from three to two hundred million users. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:15 Gina Gotthilf That's something I learned while, while growing globally at Duolingo.
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:42 Harry Stebbings We see your duolingo's at, you know, four to five. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:22 Nico Wittenborn There's, um, there's now a Duolingo that's, 4 times in the scene
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:58 Harry Stebbings The churn is a complete bitch and Duolingo is the leader, but it's still not a hugely valuable company or whatever you're selling to the NHS in the UK, which is a horrible market for you.
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:37 Albert Wenger You know, companies like Quizlet and Duolingo and Brilliant and Skillshare
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Duolingo, Gusto, UiPath, and Uncork, to name a few, and prior to Capital G, Leila was at Google as a managing director of emerging businesses, and held leadership roles within YouTube and Search, and this schedule was such a team effort, a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 Laela Sturdy And I have done both consumer and enterprise and gone deep in a lot of these horizontal enterprise platforms, as well as companies like Duolingo, interested in online education.
20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings As for Max, prior to Meritech, he spent three years with Kleiner Perkins, where he was actively involved with investments in Dropcam, Duolingo, MyFitnessPal, RelateIQ, and Stance, just to name a few.
20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Since inception in 2012, Drive have built an exceptional portfolio, including the likes of Duolingo, Farmlogs, Leadpages, and Udacity, just to name a few.
- ▶ 3:06 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Louis at Duolingo for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Chris.
- ▶ 25:33 Chris Olsen So the most recent investment that has been publicly announced was Duolingo.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 14:06 Bing Gordon So I'm doing a board now with Brad Burnham, and he was early on in Audible as well, and now we work together on Duolingo.
20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings So joining us today, we have Louis von Ahn, founder and CEO at Duolingo, the leading language learning platform with over a hundred million users, and they have backing from some of the best in the investing world, including the likes of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so I'm now thrilled to hand over to the wonderful Louis von Ahn, founder and CEO at Duolingo.
- ▶ 2:31 Harry Stebbings I'd love, though, to kick off today with how you, a man, as you put it, who has never been great at languages, came to master language learning with Duolingo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:59 Luis von Ahn I think it's huge, and we're betting a lot of the company on that at Duolingo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:51 Luis von Ahn From the beginning, when we launched Duolingo, we realized one thing. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 Harry Stebbings Now, Duolingo is clearly scaling, incredible recent round of funding, two hundred million users. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:56 Luis von Ahn First of all, they invest in category leaders and, you know, they consider Duolingo the category leader in language learning.
- ▶ 23:18 Harry Stebbings And then let's finish today on the next five years for you and for Duolingo. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Inside Google's Growth Fund & The 3 Criteria They Look For With Potential Investments with Laela Sturdy, General Partner @ CapitalG
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Layla is a partner at Capital G, where she's made investments in category leaders such as language learning platform Duolingo, payroll and benefits provider Gusto, and job site Glassdoor.
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 6:18 Albert Wenger Um, lots of people with computers connected to the internet, broadband, um, on which, uh, all of the things that we now take for granted, uh, whether that's, uh, YouTube or, uh, you know, some of our portfolio companies, uh, like a…
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