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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

Turns out language learning as a whole, not Duolingo, but language learning as a whole, the largest market is actually developing countries. Yeah. I mean, the Indias, Vietnams, Brazils, Mexicos of the world. They're learning English, and that's the largest language learning market, but we have not cracked it.

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

We have cracked the smaller one, which is like US and Western Europe and richer countries. We've cracked that in terms of monetization. In terms of users, we have users. We have a lot of users in India. They just don't pay us.

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

We have cracked the smaller one, which is like US and Western Europe and richer countries. We've cracked that in terms of monetization. In terms of users, we have users. We have a lot of users in India. They just don't pay us.

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

We have cracked the smaller one, which is like US and Western Europe and richer countries. We've cracked that in terms of monetization. In terms of users, we have users. We have a lot of users in India. They just don't pay us.

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

I don't know how to answer the question. It's in between. We started using social media with the owl a while ago. It grew mostly in the U.S. through TikTok because the owl does unhinged stuff on TikTok.

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

I don't know how to answer the question. It's in between. We started using social media with the owl a while ago. It grew mostly in the U.S. through TikTok because the owl does unhinged stuff on TikTok.

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

I don't know how to answer the question. It's in between. We started using social media with the owl a while ago. It grew mostly in the U.S. through TikTok because the owl does unhinged stuff on TikTok.

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

Five people.

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

Five people.

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

Five people.

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

No, no. Really? Actually, no. Most of them are in Pittsburgh.

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

No, no. Really? Actually, no. Most of them are in Pittsburgh.

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

No, no. Really? Actually, no. Most of them are in Pittsburgh.

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

yes it started out with tick tock and it was mainly us okay and that was several years ago what has changed in the time is first of all we're no longer just relying on tick tock it is now you know it's kind of youtube youtube shorts instagram etc so everywhere on social media that's one big thing the other one is that we learned how to localize this to different markets

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

yes it started out with tick tock and it was mainly us okay and that was several years ago what has changed in the time is first of all we're no longer just relying on tick tock it is now you know it's kind of youtube youtube shorts instagram etc so everywhere on social media that's one big thing the other one is that we learned how to localize this to different markets

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

yes it started out with tick tock and it was mainly us okay and that was several years ago what has changed in the time is first of all we're no longer just relying on tick tock it is now you know it's kind of youtube youtube shorts instagram etc so everywhere on social media that's one big thing the other one is that we learned how to localize this to different markets

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

So, you know, we started Duolingo accounts for a bunch of countries, Mexico, well, Spanish speaking, Japan, Brazil, Germany, France, China, et cetera. And it turns out we have figured out how to make all of them succeed. And I was, you know, I was dubious at first when somebody told me we're going to open an account in Germany. I thought,

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

So, you know, we started Duolingo accounts for a bunch of countries, Mexico, well, Spanish speaking, Japan, Brazil, Germany, France, China, et cetera. And it turns out we have figured out how to make all of them succeed. And I was, you know, I was dubious at first when somebody told me we're going to open an account in Germany. I thought,

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

So, you know, we started Duolingo accounts for a bunch of countries, Mexico, well, Spanish speaking, Japan, Brazil, Germany, France, China, et cetera. And it turns out we have figured out how to make all of them succeed. And I was, you know, I was dubious at first when somebody told me we're going to open an account in Germany. I thought,

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

You know, no offense to Germans, but I thought, these people don't have a sense of humor. Oh, my gosh. But it turned out. They do.