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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where ReCAPTCHA comes up on How I Built This, the a16z Podcast, the Startup Ideas Podcast, My First Million, No Priors
Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:00:20 Molly O'Shea ReCAPTCHA. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 37:04 John Collison What's happened as we've scaled up is we now just have a trust network where we can prevent fraud by virtue of the fact that we've seen most internet users, and so we have a knowledge for what good and bad looks like, and even the fact…
Using Google Ads, Heygen AI, Perplexity to make you $$$
- ▶ 33:56 Cody Schneider ReCAPTCHA. 6 times in the scene
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:51:23 Ben Gilbert Famously, I mean, that, that run in the 2010, aside from the big ones, from YouTube, from Android, from DoubleClick, from AdMob, there was also what became Google Groups, Spreadsheets, Docs, Blogger, they bought Applied Semantics with the…
No Priors Ep. 114 | With Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 0:09 Sarah Guo Luis earned his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon and went on to found ReCaptcha, which was required by Google in 2009.
- ▶ 28:19 Sarah Guo Yeah, I tend to think, um, very tactically also about impact on the, like, entrepreneurial ecosystem, and maybe it was all about finding the idea, but you studied math, and then you studied CS, and you got a PhD, and you were a professor,…
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 1:36 Zeno Rocha So even like small things like adding reCAPTCHA on the signup,
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 1:12 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a perfect storm of skill and luck drove Luis Van An to create Captcha, then ReCaptcha, and then Duolingo, a foreign language app valued at 1.5 billion dollars.
- ▶ 28:55 Guy Raz And did you call it reCAPTCHA? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:09 Guy Raz Were you still just basically running reCAPTCHA? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:03 Luis von Ahn Interestingly, what motivates me started changing quite a bit after the reCAPTCHA acquisition, because I really thought, okay, I'm in a really fortunate position in my life. 3 times in the scene
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reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 0:51 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a perfect storm of skill and luck drove Luis Van An to create Captcha, then ReCaptcha, and then Duolingo, a foreign language app valued at 1.5 billion dollars.
- ▶ 23:21 Luis von Ahn And so together we built a system that, um, would take a scan of a book and extract all the words the computer could not recognize and then send them as a capture. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:42 Guy Raz And, and did you call it reCAPTCHA? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:57 Guy Raz Were you still just basically running reCAPTCHA? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:16 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Luis and, yes, Severin Hacker take the reCAPTCHA business model and try to use it again to teach people foreign languages for free, and how they discover that particular model is just not going to…
- ▶ 34:12 Luis von Ahn Interestingly, what motivates me started changing quite a bit after the reCAPTCHA acquisition, because I really thought, okay, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:17 Guy Raz That's Luis Von Ahn, co-founder of both Duolingo and Recaptcha.
a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
- ▶ 0:28 Sonal Chokshi Founder of ReCAPTCHA and Duolingo, known for his work on human computation.
- ▶ 5:40 Malinka Walaliyadde Luis, can you tell us about how you utilize humans on the internet for your recapture project and then how you, how you build an ontology there? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:47 Jay Komarneni So, so taking a step back, I think the power of being able to create ontologies is ultimately to do scalable knowledge projects like Wikipedia, like open source software, like the type of stuff that Recaptcha has been able to accomplish.
- ▶ 14:32 Luis von Ahn We even did that for, for reCAPTCHA. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:52 Luis von Ahn In the case of recapture, we just put a little puzzle in front of them saying, please read these words.
Sean Gourley, Quid // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 14:45 Sean Gourley This happens a lot when you're, people are being paid to do jobs that algorithms aren't able to actually do, like recaptures, like signing up for Hotmail accounts, like creating Twitter spam bots.