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No Priors Ep. 114 | With Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 0:17 Sarah Guo He's now the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world's most popular education app, with over one hundred and sixteen million monthly users, a market cap of seventeen billion, and an owl mascot that faked its own death.
- ▶ 0:43 Sarah Guo Lots of people know what Duolingo is, but I would love to hear you describe it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:14 Luis von Ahn Um, for Duolingo, the Duolingo streak is the number of days that you've, um, used Duolingo in a row to learn a language. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:56 Luis von Ahn I believe that is the reason why we have grown so much. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:43 Sarah Guo Because if people are like, I'm on the subway, I'm going to do a lingo for two minutes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:23 Sarah Guo Duolingo has a, a pretty unique position in that you were a company with some scale when the, uh, capabilities in machine learning started sort of accelerating in their progress and expanding. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:16 Sarah Guo How do you decide what Duolingo can teach beyond languages? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:24 Sarah Guo Like large language models are a threat to Duolingo? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 Sarah Guo Cause it is, um, Duolingo has a very unique one. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:21 Sarah Guo Given this, like, unique scale of Duolingo, I think it's more than a hundred million people monthly, is that right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:48 Sarah Guo In your view, like schools could be childcare, but everybody's Duolingoing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:36 Luis von Ahn The good news, I don't know good or bad news, maybe probably bad news for Duolingo, but good news is this change is going to be slow. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:28 Sarah Guo So it sounds like course authoring is a place that Duolingo has gotten a lot of leverage. 4 times in the scene