Duolingo

4 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Jay Komarneni · said 23 times in 6 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Komarneni: Duolingo inspired HumanDX's gamified clinical case interface
“Louise had actually his work on Duolingo and really kind of this idea of creating these micro interactions that almost have this gamified structure was really a major inspiration also for the way that we built HumanDX to be these brief interactions where you c…”
Jay Komarneni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:05 a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
Jul 21, 2023 positive
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Gotthelf: Duolingo's data history and iteration speed make UI copycats futile
“With Duolingo, the product is the moat, and that's the most incredible thing because of what I just said before about the iteration and the iterative practice. Anyone at any particular moment in time, and many did try, could actually go and copy exactly what D…”
Gina Gotthelf Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 12:46 Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
Jul 21, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Host: Duolingo grew from 3M to 300M users with no paid budget
“First off, we have Gina Gotthelf, now leading Latitude, but perhaps most well-known for her impressive reign as the VP of Growth at Duolingo. Growing them from three to three hundred million users with no paid budget.”
Steph Smith Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 1:41 Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
Jul 21, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gotthelf: Duolingo mandated upfront hypotheses and two-week post-mortems for experiments
“At Duolingo, we had a practice of making sure that every experiment had a proper write-up in the beginning with, like, all of the hypotheses and what we actually expected, and then, like, two weeks later to be able to come back and then look at all of those, b…”
Gina Gotthelf Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 27:42 Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
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