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CEO, Duolingo

Luis von Ahn

Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and computer scientist who founded Duolingo, a language learning platform. Known for pioneering crowdsourced translation and gamification in education. Previously worked on CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA at Carnegie Mellon.

Known For

Founding DuolingoGamification in learningReckoning with AI hype in educationPrioritizing user growth over short-term revenue

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