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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.