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Severin Hacker

05/19/25

@ 20VC with Harry Stebbings

From day one, Duolingo was technology-first, and now we refer to it as AI, which has significantly improved since our inception.

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Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education

@ 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education

05/19/25

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Luis von Ahn

12/01/23

@ The Logan Bartlett Show

From the beginning, Duolingo's goal was to teach languages using AI instead of human teachers, as humans are expensive and not scalable.

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Luis von Ahn

05/10/25

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

We have a lot of data on how people learn on Duolingo, and while we use it to build models, we can probably do more with it to enhance AI progress.

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Luis von Ahn

05/10/25

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

Duolingo is known for its quirky, mission-driven, and deeply human culture, and I don't foresee that changing as AI takes a bigger role in the company.

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Severin Hacker

05/19/25

@ 20VC with Harry Stebbings

We always knew we could grow users first, which was our primary focus in the early days of Duolingo.

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Luis von Ahn

12/01/23

@ The Logan Bartlett Show

We built a culture of iteration and continuous improvement at Duolingo, which has been crucial for our growth.

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Luis von Ahn

12/01/23

@ The Logan Bartlett Show

In the early days of Duolingo, we realized that keeping users motivated was the biggest challenge in language learning, which led us to incorporate game mechanics into our lessons.

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Sundar Pichai

06/05/25

@ Lex Fridman

As AI continues to improve, it enhances our quality of life and makes us more excited to learn and discover about the world.

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Luis von Ahn

05/10/25

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

AI has transformed our business, enabling us to offer conversation practice through large language models, which was previously impossible without human interaction.

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Guillermo Rauch

04/13/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

AI is still a work in progress, and while it can make mistakes, the goal is to create a product that learns from user interactions and improves over time.