Luis von Ahn
10 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2017 by Luis von Ahn · said 73 times in 9 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Severin Hacker (23), Harry Stebbings (16), Zaria Parvez (8), Gina Gotthilf (8), Cem Kansu (5), Shiv Rao (3), Phil Carter (3), Victor Lazarte (2)
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2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2025 46 mentions in 3 episodes 15 per episode
- Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 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
- Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2023 8 mentions in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Luis von Ahn, oldest first
Oct 13, 2017
Von Ahn: Two-thirds of language learners study English to escape poverty
“Most of the people that are learning a foreign language, about two thirds of them, satisfy three properties. First, they're learning English. Second, the reason they're learning English is in order to get a job. And third, they are of low socioeconomic conditi…”
Oct 13, 2017
Oct 13, 2017
Oct 13, 2017 negative
Von Ahn: Duolingo rejects Silicon Valley's 'hire fast, fire fast' philosophy
“No, I do not agree with that. We're actually doing quite the opposite. We're, Very picky at hiring. I mean, we have raised quite a bit of money. We have raised about a hundred and eight million dollars. So we would be able, we only have about a hundred employe…”
Jan 19, 2024 positive
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn accepts pushback on video removal requests
“He does DM me and there's these open conversations and he's open to hearing pushback as well. There's been times where he's told us to take down a video and I was like, okay, cool. But what if I like change the audio, fix up the text a little bit, can I repost…”
May 19, 2025 positive
May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
Hacker: Duolingo founders signed a brief written contract outlining roles and decisions
“So, you know, we, I wrote down a little contract between the two of us. I still have a copy at home. Where we outline exactly like, you know, this is how we're going to make decisions. It's like this short. This is how we're going to make decisions. This is, y…”
May 19, 2025 negative
Hacker: Luis von Ahn initially resisted hiring product managers at Duolingo
“I was the one who pushed for hiring our first product manager. It was actually interesting because Luis at the time, he's like, oh, we don't need product managers. He's, he had seen some of them at Google. His previous company was acquired by Google. So he had…”