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Luis Von Ahn

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

That feature in the past would have taken a long time to scale, but we were able to scale it pretty quickly because of AI.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

That feature in the past would have taken a long time to scale, but we were able to scale it pretty quickly because of AI.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Well, it is free. You can use it entirely for free without ever having to pay. But if you don't pay, you may have to see some ads, and we make money from the ads. But also, if you want to turn off the ads, you can pay to subscribe, and it turns off the ads, and it gives you some extra features, and we also make money from the subscription.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Well, it is free. You can use it entirely for free without ever having to pay. But if you don't pay, you may have to see some ads, and we make money from the ads. But also, if you want to turn off the ads, you can pay to subscribe, and it turns off the ads, and it gives you some extra features, and we also make money from the subscription.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Well, it is free. You can use it entirely for free without ever having to pay. But if you don't pay, you may have to see some ads, and we make money from the ads. But also, if you want to turn off the ads, you can pay to subscribe, and it turns off the ads, and it gives you some extra features, and we also make money from the subscription.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And actually, the majority of the revenue comes from the subscription.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And actually, the majority of the revenue comes from the subscription.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And actually, the majority of the revenue comes from the subscription.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yes, as of relatively recent. Yes, we are.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yes, as of relatively recent. Yes, we are.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yes, as of relatively recent. Yes, we are.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It's probably true. Ads have never been a priority for us. I don't know the exact number, but it's something like 6% or 7% of our revenue comes from ads. And so for us, as long as they're there, they are a good reason for people to subscribe. But yeah, generally, we make about 80% of our revenue from subscriptions.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It's probably true. Ads have never been a priority for us. I don't know the exact number, but it's something like 6% or 7% of our revenue comes from ads. And so for us, as long as they're there, they are a good reason for people to subscribe. But yeah, generally, we make about 80% of our revenue from subscriptions.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It's probably true. Ads have never been a priority for us. I don't know the exact number, but it's something like 6% or 7% of our revenue comes from ads. And so for us, as long as they're there, they are a good reason for people to subscribe. But yeah, generally, we make about 80% of our revenue from subscriptions.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And even though, by the way, only about 10% of our monthly active users pay to subscribe. We're a little under 10% of our monthly active users pay to subscribe. So that 10% of our monthly active users give us more than 80% of our revenue.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And even though, by the way, only about 10% of our monthly active users pay to subscribe. We're a little under 10% of our monthly active users pay to subscribe. So that 10% of our monthly active users give us more than 80% of our revenue.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And even though, by the way, only about 10% of our monthly active users pay to subscribe. We're a little under 10% of our monthly active users pay to subscribe. So that 10% of our monthly active users give us more than 80% of our revenue.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It's the majority of languages. I mean, math and music are growing. They're just getting started. I mean, we really launched those about a year ago. And so they're just getting started. It's overwhelmingly languages.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It's the majority of languages. I mean, math and music are growing. They're just getting started. I mean, we really launched those about a year ago. And so they're just getting started. It's overwhelmingly languages.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It's the majority of languages. I mean, math and music are growing. They're just getting started. I mean, we really launched those about a year ago. And so they're just getting started. It's overwhelmingly languages.