universities

“Teaching, as surprising as it may be, is really very low on the total pool of priorities in higher education. In fact, that's just, it's not how universities get funded. You know, universities are not known generally because of the quality of their teaching. I…”

“Instead of getting paid by either of those entities up front, we want to get paid term over term as the students succeed. And so we've actually put all of our revenue at risk and said, we only want to get paid when the student is succeeding in school.”

“The fact that John Zimmer, when he was selling the platform to universities, would go to a university campus dressed in a beaver suit to try to convince people to just engage with this platform gives you a sense for, like, it wasn't that they felt like someone…”

“I would love to create a new type of engineer full stack hardware engineers. They don't exist like you have in the software world. You know, you always have to have a team with three or four types of engineers. And I wish there were more full stack hardware en…”

“There's a reason why adoption rates are over 70% in universities for chat GPT. And while they're like at a few percent elsewhere in the world, we figure stuff out like this.”

“And we're actually not doing that at Duolingo. We still hire from universities.”

“I think we have starved our universities of compute. If you want to do interesting training work at a university, very hard to get enough compute to do that.”

“There's a lot of good ideas that you need to test out at small scale. And in a university, you have a lot more freedom to pick pretty risky ideas at a small scale, but still, you know, no one's asking you to justify your research in, in ways that, that often h…”