How Luis von Ahn Built Duolingo to a $9 Billion EdTech Giant
December 28th, 2024
Founded By
Luis von Ahn
Monthly Revenue
$62.3M
Starting Costs
$3.3M
Days To Build
365
Founders
2
Employees
650 (est.)
Monthly Traffic
76.2M
Profitable
Yes
Days To Build
365
Year Started
2011
Customer
B2C
Revenue Per Visitor
$0.82
Who is Luis von Ahn?
Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan computer scientist and entrepreneur known for inventing CAPTCHA and creating Duolingo. Educated at Duke University and Carnegie Mellon University, von Ahn focuses on using technology to make education universally accessible.
Sources (10)
5 podcasts · 3 articles · 1 social media post · 1 youtube
forbes.com
Article
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2019
Game of Tongues: How Duolingo Built A $700 Million Business With Its Addictive Language-Learning App
Beg for your life in Spanish," demands Duo, a plump green owl. The viral meme circulating on Twitter stars the mascot for Duolingo, the h...
aliyarh.medium.com
Article
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2023
Duolingo, a story of pivoting, experimenting and reinventing your business model to teach the world new languages for free
Today I want to tell you what CAPTCHA and Duolingo have in common. CAPTCHA, that box you tick to verify that you’re not a robot, started ...
founderoo.co
Article
Founderoo
Let's delve deeper into the story of Duolingo and one of it's founders, Luis von Ahn:
listennotes.com
Podcast
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2024
Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO)
Duolingo has fundamentally changed the landscape of self-guided education, starting with language learning. It is now a $9B publicly trad...
listennotes.com
Podcast
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2023
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
In 2000, Luis von Ahn was starting his PhD in computer science when he attended a talk and happened to learn about one of Yahoo's biggest...
listennotes.com
Podcast
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2022
Duolingo Founder: Being a genius, inventing CAPTCHA & getting 500m users - Luis Von Ahn
If you’re not one of their 500 million users, Duolingo is a phenomenally successful app where you practise a language in small chunks eve...
20 Min VC
Podcast
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12 months ago
20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
<p dir="ltr">Cem Kansu is the Chief Product Officer at Duolingo, where he leads product strategy for over 90 million monthly active learn...
How I Built This
Podcast
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2023
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
<p>In 2000, Luis von Ahn was starting his PhD in computer science when he attended a talk and happened to learn about one of Yah...
linkedin.com
Social media post
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2023
Language Learning Made Free: The Fascinating Journey of Duolingo's Founder, Luis von Ahn
Hey there language lovers, have you heard of this app called Duolingo? it's the go-to place for free language learning. Plus, they've got...
youtu.be
YouTube
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2022
How I Built A $6.5 Billion App Called Duolingo | Founder Effect
By the time Luis von Ahn turned 24, he was already a millionaire several times over.
The 43-year-old may not be a household name, but ...
