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Luis Von Ahn

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Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

And so at this point, you know, my sense is you just have to really fight for people's attention and you have to be using the techniques that are now best understood. It's kind of a similar, you know, you could have said TV is really bad. But, you know, when I grew up, there was the Discovery Channel before it turned into like reality TV. It was like science.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

And so at this point, you know, my sense is you just have to really fight for people's attention and you have to be using the techniques that are now best understood. It's kind of a similar, you know, you could have said TV is really bad. But, you know, when I grew up, there was the Discovery Channel before it turned into like reality TV. It was like science.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

And so at this point, you know, my sense is you just have to really fight for people's attention and you have to be using the techniques that are now best understood. It's kind of a similar, you know, you could have said TV is really bad. But, you know, when I grew up, there was the Discovery Channel before it turned into like reality TV. It was like science.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But, you know, they were trying to use the same medium that all the other stuff was, but for teaching you. It's kind of a similar thing that we're trying to do here with Duolingo. Yeah.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But, you know, they were trying to use the same medium that all the other stuff was, but for teaching you. It's kind of a similar thing that we're trying to do here with Duolingo. Yeah.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

But, you know, they were trying to use the same medium that all the other stuff was, but for teaching you. It's kind of a similar thing that we're trying to do here with Duolingo. Yeah.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

Well, the first step is that you should like it and people around you should like it. It's hard to make fun things. It's hard to make fun things, first of all. The second piece of advice that I have is, and I like to tell this to a lot of people here at Duolingo, I have never seen a successful product that got really successful in under, like, call it three to four years. Wow. Of work.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

Well, the first step is that you should like it and people around you should like it. It's hard to make fun things. It's hard to make fun things, first of all. The second piece of advice that I have is, and I like to tell this to a lot of people here at Duolingo, I have never seen a successful product that got really successful in under, like, call it three to four years. Wow. Of work.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

Well, the first step is that you should like it and people around you should like it. It's hard to make fun things. It's hard to make fun things, first of all. The second piece of advice that I have is, and I like to tell this to a lot of people here at Duolingo, I have never seen a successful product that got really successful in under, like, call it three to four years. Wow. Of work.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

I mean, you may not have launched it, but everything takes—good products take, you know, three, four years. And this is a fast one. You just need the time in the oven. I use this line here internally. You just need the time in the oven. Yeah.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

I mean, you may not have launched it, but everything takes—good products take, you know, three, four years. And this is a fast one. You just need the time in the oven. I use this line here internally. You just need the time in the oven. Yeah.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

I mean, you may not have launched it, but everything takes—good products take, you know, three, four years. And this is a fast one. You just need the time in the oven. I use this line here internally. You just need the time in the oven. Yeah.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

It just takes a while. And no product has had overnight success that remains. As in, if it's long-term success, if you're talking about whatever products, Instagram, ChatGPT, all of these things that have a lot of success, they were years in the making.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

It just takes a while. And no product has had overnight success that remains. As in, if it's long-term success, if you're talking about whatever products, Instagram, ChatGPT, all of these things that have a lot of success, they were years in the making.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

It just takes a while. And no product has had overnight success that remains. As in, if it's long-term success, if you're talking about whatever products, Instagram, ChatGPT, all of these things that have a lot of success, they were years in the making.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

Good, yes, in a good way. For something useful.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

Good, yes, in a good way. For something useful.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

Good, yes, in a good way. For something useful.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

You need to take back that illegal move, probably.

The Best One Yet
Exclusive šŸ¦‰ ā€œEducation Super Appā€ — Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announces next product on TBOY

You need to take back that illegal move, probably.