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every year anyone Malinka Walaliyadde 3Zach Cohen 2Luis von Ahn 2Gina Gotthelf 2Sonal Chokshi 1Mark Cuban 1Augusto Marietti 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Duolingo comes up
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 28:08 Augusto Marietti Agents are going to programmatically exchange labor, get us done through programming interface, whether it's classic APRS, MCP protocols, which is like Duolingo for APIs, makes them speak English, whatever it is, the protocol, but machines
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 18:35 Mark Cuban You know, sign up for Duolingo, right?
TikTok & AI Have Changed Education Forever - What it means for Teachers, Students & Parents
- ▶ 1:04 Zach Cohen Yeah, so quickly, just my background, um, been operating investing in education for quite some time, so I've been here for a little over two and a half years, thinking about what the next generation of education's gonna look like, uh, with…
- ▶ 5:41 Zach Cohen The retention maybe has been a bit better, or, like, the completion rates or learning efficacy on Duolingo has, like, improved with, like, all the AI features, but I have not seen kind of a native AI player in the adult education space,…
7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
- ▶ 18:31 unnamed speaker One good example that I think about is there's a lot of AI journal products like Rosebud or J-O-T, and it actually has streak mechanism, and that's helpful, and another language learning app called Speak AI, and it's similar to Duolingo. 2 times in the scene
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
- ▶ 1:41 unnamed speaker 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:06 unnamed speaker Those ladder up to growth, but maybe if we just attack this idea of building a good product, that's not a new idea, but it does feel like, at least to me, maybe we are in a different era where it's easier to copy products, and so is it… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:46 Gina Gotthelf Or like at Duolingo, we'd be like, oh, you know, we told Apple that we're actually going to make this sprint, and now that's, that's there, so we just have to do it, and so suddenly it's not like something that like can be pushed because… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
- ▶ 0:28 Sonal Chokshi Founder of ReCAPTCHA and Duolingo, known for his work on human computation.
- ▶ 7:18 Malinka Walaliyadde Whereas with Duolingo, you needed people who are bilingual, which where there's a small set of people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:26 Malinka Walaliyadde Luis, and how did you do that with Duolingo?
- ▶ 18:05 Luis von Ahn In the case of Duolingo, we, we, you know, the way we started is we, we would say to help us translate stuff, you, we, in exchange, we essentially help you practice the language that you're, that you're learning. 2 times in the scene