Luis von Ahn
28 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 25, 2020 by Luis von Ahn · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020
Von Ahn: Bill Gates spent nearly an hour recruiting him to Microsoft
“I had been an intern, I had been, like a year and a half before that, I had been an intern at Microsoft. And so I had good ties with Microsoft, and they really wanted to hire me for Microsoft Research. And so that is, you know, Bill Gates spent, I don't know, …”
May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 neutral
May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 neutral
May 25, 2020
Von Ahn: Early CAPTCHAs wasted 500,000 hours of human time daily
“I did a little back of the envelope calculation, realized about two hundred million Times a day somebody types a captcha. And that's when you get two hundred million times a day times 10 seconds. So humanity as a whole is wasting about 500,000 hours a day typi…”
May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Dec 18, 2023
Dec 18, 2023
Von Ahn: Bill Gates spent an hour personally trying to recruit me
“I had been an intern, I had been, like a year and a half before that, I had been an intern at Microsoft. And so I had good ties with Microsoft, and they really wanted to hire me for Microsoft Research. And so that is, you know, Bill Gates spent, I don't know, …”
Dec 18, 2023
Dec 18, 2023 positive
Dec 18, 2023
Dec 18, 2023
Dec 18, 2023
Luis von Ahn: Google Acquired ESP Game for Google Image Labeler
“And at some point, actually Google, in fact, bought it. They just bought the technology, and then it got implemented. They changed the name from the ESP game, which I call it the ESP game, because it's like ES, extrasensory perception. The idea was like, tried…”
Dec 18, 2023
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Dec 18, 2023
May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025 neutral
May 1, 2025 negative
Luis von Ahn: Do not bet early on unproven new tech platforms
“What we've learned
Is not to bet on these very new products, because you really never know if they're going to work. So it's not that Apple Watch didn't work. Apple Watch ended up working, but what didn't work was apps on Apple Watch. There's just.
That's ju…”
May 1, 2025 neutral
Von Ahn: CapitalG partner warned Duolingo had to start making money
“And at some point, we raised money from Google. Capital G is one of their investment arms. And the partner from that firm sat me down and she said, nobody else will invest in this company if you don't figure out how to make money. You know, you're not going to…”
May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025
Von Ahn: Requiring partners to pay filters for true venue commitment
“If these places are willing to put in the money for something, that means they care. And that, that's a way to suss out how much this place actually cares about having your machine versus a place that just doesn't care all that much.”
May 1, 2025 positive
Luis von Ahn: Mission-focused founders usually make more money than profit-driven founders
“In my experience, that type of business usually is a lot more successful. Even if early, if the founder is not necessarily all that much into making money, et cetera, they end up making more money than the ones that are where the founder's like, I just want to…”