"What will probably happen is that one person will be able to accomplish more, rather than having fewer people," Duolingo's CEO Luis von Ahn said.

“This was on me,” von Ahn said of the backlash. “Externally, as a publicly traded company some people assume that it’s just for profit. Or that we’re trying to lay off humans. And that was not the ...

Sitting in Duo’s Taqueria, a dimly-lit upscale Mexican restaurant in Pittsburgh, Luis von Ahn contemplates the end of work as we know it. In between bites of al pastor tacos and sips of a margarita, ...

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Amid the wider debate in Silicon Valley about how a CEO should run their company, Duolingo's chief executive is siding with a data-driven approach to founder mode. He's also confident that his ...

Luis von Ahn has been the CEO of Duolingo for over 14 years. In a new social media post, von Ahn detailed five tips for new hires to succeed at the company. One tip he gave was avoiding toxic behavior ...

Several months after announcing that Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) would be taking an AI-first approach to business, CEO Luis von Ahn says the language-learning company hasn't laid off a single full-time ...

While an A.I. pivot has spurred unprecedented user growth at Duolingo, the popular language learning app’s costly new strategy has received a frostier embrace from investors. The company exceeded Wall ...

He said that Duolingo's algorithms predict a student's test score before the first question appears, adjusting difficulty to keep motivation high. That predictive power, according to von Ahn, makes ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Luis von Ahn, the CEO of the language learning platform Duolingo, says he's got 5 tips for new hires.

Luis von Ahn is the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning app with more than 31 million monthly active users. The public company has a market cap of over $9 billion. Von Ahn led ...