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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
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.