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Advice Line with Luis von Ahn of Duolingo May 1, 2025 · 2 mentions

▶ 1:47 Guy Raz Um, you, you became a professor at Carnegie Mellon, and then, uh, you got a MacArthur Genius Grant.
▶ 43:54 Guy Raz You'd worked at Google, you went on MacArthur Fellowship.

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020) Dec 18, 2023 · 2 mentions

▶ 17:11 Guy Raz You're a young professor, you're, you're on tenure track, and by the way, um, early on in your academic career, I should mention this, uh, you were granted a very, like, one of the most prestigious awards, um, the MacArthur Grant, known as… 2 times in the scene

20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI Aug 27, 2018 · 1 mention

▶ 11:20 Daniel Gross So unlike traditional systems where you apply for various other grants like the MacArthur Fellowship, Pell Grant, or even the Teal Fellowship, where you fill out an application, and then you have four or five people just reading thousands…

There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator Dec 6, 2017 · 1 mention

▶ 4:17 Kevin Slavin I, you know, I was thinking, I was thinking, wow, you know, like, I have two friends who've never even met each other who just got MacArthur grants, and I have another friend who just released some beautiful, beautiful work, like, uh, the,…

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 Oct 13, 2017 · 1 mention

▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And prior to Duolingo, Lewis is known for inventing captures, being a MacArthur Fellow, or otherwise known as the Genius Grant, and selling two companies to Google in his twenties.

Rick Smolan, "The Human Face of Big Data" // Data Driven NYC #8 // Sep 2012 Dec 5, 2013 · 1 mention

▶ 9:30 Rick Smolan This is his third startup, and he lives in Oregon, and he's a MacArthur Fellow.