Duolingo
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 10 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sam Parr (4), Shaan Puri (3), George Mack (2), Thomas Braziel (1)
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2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
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Mar 19, 2021 neutral
Sam Parr: Duolingo originally monetized by selling user translations to third parties
“When he started Duolingo, he started it for two reasons. One, I guess he just cared about helping you learn language, but two, when you are learning the language, you're actually translating stuff that a third-party service is paying for you to translate.”
Mar 24, 2021 bullish
Puri: Ambient language plugins like Toucan beat dedicated apps like Duolingo
“The biggest friction is not that it's that hard to learn a language. It's hard to make the time to like sit down, open the book or download the app, open the app and focus and just do Duolingo for 30 minutes a day. It doesn't sound that hard, but in practice i…”