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Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

One of the things that we found is, you know, we thought, well, if we're going to stop sending notifications after five days, we may as well tell you that we're stopping. You know, we're being nice to you. We're not going to spam you forever. We may as well tell you. We didn't think this was going to bring people back.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

One of the things that we found is, you know, we thought, well, if we're going to stop sending notifications after five days, we may as well tell you that we're stopping. You know, we're being nice to you. We're not going to spam you forever. We may as well tell you. We didn't think this was going to bring people back.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But what we did is we started sending the last notification that we send says something like, these reminders don't seem to be working. We're going to stop sending them for now. We thought we were just being nice. I didn't realize. Yeah, you're being honest. Yeah, but I didn't realize this was an extremely passive-aggressive way to get you to come back.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But what we did is we started sending the last notification that we send says something like, these reminders don't seem to be working. We're going to stop sending them for now. We thought we were just being nice. I didn't realize. Yeah, you're being honest. Yeah, but I didn't realize this was an extremely passive-aggressive way to get you to come back.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But what we did is we started sending the last notification that we send says something like, these reminders don't seem to be working. We're going to stop sending them for now. We thought we were just being nice. I didn't realize. Yeah, you're being honest. Yeah, but I didn't realize this was an extremely passive-aggressive way to get you to come back.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

It works really well. It works really well. And that notification, not only did that notification work really well, it also kind of became the basis of our voice.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

It works really well. It works really well. And that notification, not only did that notification work really well, it also kind of became the basis of our voice.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

It works really well. It works really well. And that notification, not only did that notification work really well, it also kind of became the basis of our voice.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

We started really realizing, okay, we can be a little more savage. Yeah. I mean, before that, it was all very technical. And also that notification started giving rise to all these memes about how the owl really wants you back. And that's all the owl wants is for you to do the language.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

We started really realizing, okay, we can be a little more savage. Yeah. I mean, before that, it was all very technical. And also that notification started giving rise to all these memes about how the owl really wants you back. And that's all the owl wants is for you to do the language.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

We started really realizing, okay, we can be a little more savage. Yeah. I mean, before that, it was all very technical. And also that notification started giving rise to all these memes about how the owl really wants you back. And that's all the owl wants is for you to do the language.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

And he's willing to go through great lengths, including kidnapping your family or whatever it is for you to do your lesson. But it all came from that notification. And then there's all these memes that came about. And our voice really was found. And at this point, we have a pretty quirky voice that is a little savage and makes fun of you sometimes, but it generally works to get you to come back.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

And he's willing to go through great lengths, including kidnapping your family or whatever it is for you to do your lesson. But it all came from that notification. And then there's all these memes that came about. And our voice really was found. And at this point, we have a pretty quirky voice that is a little savage and makes fun of you sometimes, but it generally works to get you to come back.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

And he's willing to go through great lengths, including kidnapping your family or whatever it is for you to do your lesson. But it all came from that notification. And then there's all these memes that came about. And our voice really was found. And at this point, we have a pretty quirky voice that is a little savage and makes fun of you sometimes, but it generally works to get you to come back.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

No. It's universal. We have heard so much from people who tell us that there are differences. And we also employ country marketing managers in every country, not every country, in every large country. And they tell us all kinds of things like, oh, you know, Brazilians, they're different for the following reason. And they tell us all this stuff.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

No. It's universal. We have heard so much from people who tell us that there are differences. And we also employ country marketing managers in every country, not every country, in every large country. And they tell us all kinds of things like, oh, you know, Brazilians, they're different for the following reason. And they tell us all this stuff.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

No. It's universal. We have heard so much from people who tell us that there are differences. And we also employ country marketing managers in every country, not every country, in every large country. And they tell us all kinds of things like, oh, you know, Brazilians, they're different for the following reason. And they tell us all this stuff.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But people in China, they are different for this reason. Nope. It turns out pretty similar. The things that work...

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But people in China, they are different for this reason. Nope. It turns out pretty similar. The things that work...

The Best One Yet
Exclusive 🦉 “Education Super App” — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But people in China, they are different for this reason. Nope. It turns out pretty similar. The things that work...