Duolingo, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 51Gina Gotthilf 17Sriram Krishnan 3Casey Winters 3Gustav Söderström 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Duolingo comes up
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 3:20 Lenny Rachitsky Product, design, and research teams at companies like Amazon and Duolingo are already using Strela for Figma prototype testing, concept validation, and customer journey research, getting insights overnight.
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 4:53 Lenny Rachitsky Product, design, and research teams at companies like Amazon and Duolingo are already using Strela for Figma prototype testing, concept validation, and customer journey research, getting insights overnight instead of waiting for the next…
- ▶ 1:06:29 Lenny Rachitsky And I was thinking as you, we were talking about consumer NRR, if you look at Duolingo, they've done a great job here. 2 times in the scene
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- ▶ 4:39 Lenny Rachitsky Product, design, and research teams at companies like Amazon and Duolingo are already using Strela for Figma prototype testing, concept validation, and customer journey research, getting insights overnight instead of waiting for the next…
Failure
- ▶ 44:33 Lenny Rachitsky Our second to last story is from Gina Gotthilf, who is an early growth leader at Duolingo.
- ▶ 56:48 Gina Gotthilf We, we tried making a Duolingo for Schools platform, like, we couldn't get it to pick up.
- ▶ 56:53 Gina Gotthilf I went and launched Duolingo in China, and it got downloaded by a million people in the first day, and then the app got blocked, and we, you know, because of the government, and then we couldn't figure out what to do, and then everyone… 4 times in the scene
Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Zero)
- ▶ 1:16:27 Lenny Rachitsky There's, uh, Duolingo.
Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- ▶ 0:13 Gina Gotthilf One of the things I've helped employ at Duolingo that I think is still there today.
- ▶ 0:50 Lenny Rachitsky Gina is most known for leading growth and marketing at Duolingo, helping take them from three million to over two hundred million users, primarily through organic and non-paid growth channels, which we explore in depth. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:14 Gina Gotthilf I helped Duolingo scale from three to two hundred million users.
- ▶ 13:03 Gina Gotthilf And it eventually worked for well-known companies such as Duolingo. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Lenny Rachitsky And so we're going to definitely talk about Duolingo and a little bit more about Latin America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:36 Lenny Rachitsky One is obviously Duolingo, so let's just spend some time here. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:28 Gina Gotthilf And then we, you know, the Duolingo English test that we started developing really early with Burr Settles, um, an amazing guy who basically was, you know, developing this test.
- ▶ 37:41 unnamed speaker Find in, in those apps would potentially overlay onto Duolingo and how, you know, we would do that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:01 unnamed speaker We, we tried making a Duolingo for Schools platform, like, we couldn't get it to pick up.
- ▶ 44:55 Lenny Rachitsky I want to go back to the A side and just a couple more questions about Duolingo. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:02 Lenny Rachitsky Is there an example of that kind of like a message you remember for either from Duolingo or from even Latitude of some of that work that was really funny or different? 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:07 Lenny Rachitsky Internationalization of Duolingo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:28 Gina Gotthilf And in my time working with Tumblr and my agency and Duolingo, I had the, the,
- ▶ 1:18:40 Gina Gotthilf We have the best talent we've ever had because now we've had, I forget how many, but like a lot of IPOs that came from Latin America, like an, and, and, and, and unicorn companies, people who have worked at those companies or who have…
- ▶ 1:26:19 Gina Gotthilf And if they connect with our mission, because we're going to talk about mission a lot and I, I, I don't want them to gloss over it and to make decisions that are short-term thinking that go against our mission because of the reasons I… 2 times in the scene
The science of product, big bets, and how AI is impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 1:20:16 Gustav Söderström Which is, uh, Duolingo, which I think is both very impressive from a product point of view, the, the execution and, and, uh, what they've done.
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 1:08:10 Casey Winters Netflix in the US, Amazon prime, Spotify, Duolingo, I think is emerging as, as one of these players that's making it work. 3 times in the scene
Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 43:24 Sriram Krishnan For example, I'll say that Lenny's post the other week from Duolingo's VP.
- ▶ 1:16:01 Sriram Krishnan One of my favorite posts from Lenny in the recent times, I don't know when this episode is going to go out, is the Duolingo growth post, right? 2 times in the scene