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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

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.

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.

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

They do. And it is, in fact, one of our more successful accounts. They are a little different. So if you look at it, it's not that different, but they are a little different.

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

They do. And it is, in fact, one of our more successful accounts. They are a little different. So if you look at it, it's not that different, but they are a little different.

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

They do. And it is, in fact, one of our more successful accounts. They are a little different. So if you look at it, it's not that different, but they are a little different.

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

No, no, no, no, no. Okay. We have global team, which is these five people. And in each country, we have a small number of people. It's probably one or two people that localize this stuff. And now, localized doesn't mean we take the exact same videos and, you know, in Mexico, put a sombrero on. That's not that.

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

No, no, no, no, no. Okay. We have global team, which is these five people. And in each country, we have a small number of people. It's probably one or two people that localize this stuff. And now, localized doesn't mean we take the exact same videos and, you know, in Mexico, put a sombrero on. That's not that.

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

No, no, no, no, no. Okay. We have global team, which is these five people. And in each country, we have a small number of people. It's probably one or two people that localize this stuff. And now, localized doesn't mean we take the exact same videos and, you know, in Mexico, put a sombrero on. That's not that.

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

It's just we kind of have themes, and we have figured out what themes work globally and kind of also what themes work in certain countries. And so, for example, the German one, we had a really big thing on Oktoberfest. And also, at some point, because there's this kind of dance club scene in Berlin, I guess they all went to one of these 24-hour dance clubs.

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

It's just we kind of have themes, and we have figured out what themes work globally and kind of also what themes work in certain countries. And so, for example, the German one, we had a really big thing on Oktoberfest. And also, at some point, because there's this kind of dance club scene in Berlin, I guess they all went to one of these 24-hour dance clubs.

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

It's just we kind of have themes, and we have figured out what themes work globally and kind of also what themes work in certain countries. And so, for example, the German one, we had a really big thing on Oktoberfest. And also, at some point, because there's this kind of dance club scene in Berlin, I guess they all went to one of these 24-hour dance clubs.

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

So in each country, it does different stuff, and it's worked out pretty well.

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

So in each country, it does different stuff, and it's worked out pretty well.

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

So in each country, it does different stuff, and it's worked out pretty well.

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

It's a lot of that. It's a lot of that. I mean, it's relatively... By now, because we are such a presence online... By the way, I didn't know this until recently. There are weeks when our...

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

It's a lot of that. It's a lot of that. I mean, it's relatively... By now, because we are such a presence online... By the way, I didn't know this until recently. There are weeks when our...

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

It's a lot of that. It's a lot of that. I mean, it's relatively... By now, because we are such a presence online... By the way, I didn't know this until recently. There are weeks when our...

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

video on tick tock is the most watched video in all of tick tock that week that happens i mean and so by now our account is so well known and so uh or our accounts are so well known etc that we have we have our pick in terms of you know a lot of people want to work for that team and And typically we just look at what they've done before.

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

video on tick tock is the most watched video in all of tick tock that week that happens i mean and so by now our account is so well known and so uh or our accounts are so well known etc that we have we have our pick in terms of you know a lot of people want to work for that team and And typically we just look at what they've done before.

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

video on tick tock is the most watched video in all of tick tock that week that happens i mean and so by now our account is so well known and so uh or our accounts are so well known etc that we have we have our pick in terms of you know a lot of people want to work for that team and And typically we just look at what they've done before.