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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

I'm trying to remember what that one was. There...

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

I also, I mean, it's been such a long ago. I'll tell you a couple of things. I don't remember the exact video what it was, but I know that the last one that I approved, I was wrong. As in, I shouldn't have approved it. In retrospect, and a lot of this is you don't know in retrospect. You don't know until it happens because you put it out and then you just see this reaction.

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

I also, I mean, it's been such a long ago. I'll tell you a couple of things. I don't remember the exact video what it was, but I know that the last one that I approved, I was wrong. As in, I shouldn't have approved it. In retrospect, and a lot of this is you don't know in retrospect. You don't know until it happens because you put it out and then you just see this reaction.

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

I also, I mean, it's been such a long ago. I'll tell you a couple of things. I don't remember the exact video what it was, but I know that the last one that I approved, I was wrong. As in, I shouldn't have approved it. In retrospect, and a lot of this is you don't know in retrospect. You don't know until it happens because you put it out and then you just see this reaction.

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

And I just, I don't remember what it was, but I know I approved it and I know I was wrong. Because I just didn't imagine that it was going to have that reaction. We haven't had that many full posts. I mean, it's been like three or four videos. That's just like, you probably shouldn't have done that. I'll tell you the other thing was we, about a year ago, we had made this crazy video.

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

And I just, I don't remember what it was, but I know I approved it and I know I was wrong. Because I just didn't imagine that it was going to have that reaction. We haven't had that many full posts. I mean, it's been like three or four videos. That's just like, you probably shouldn't have done that. I'll tell you the other thing was we, about a year ago, we had made this crazy video.

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

And I just, I don't remember what it was, but I know I approved it and I know I was wrong. Because I just didn't imagine that it was going to have that reaction. We haven't had that many full posts. I mean, it's been like three or four videos. That's just like, you probably shouldn't have done that. I'll tell you the other thing was we, about a year ago, we had made this crazy video.

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

It was insane. We were a little hesitant about it. And we ended up cutting it. We cut it. You know, there's all these memes online about how the owl really wants you to learn a language. And it goes through great lengths, including kidnapping your family. this was a video about kidnapping. And we were a little hesitant about it, and then the October 7 attack happened, and then we cut it.

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

It was insane. We were a little hesitant about it. And we ended up cutting it. We cut it. You know, there's all these memes online about how the owl really wants you to learn a language. And it goes through great lengths, including kidnapping your family. this was a video about kidnapping. And we were a little hesitant about it, and then the October 7 attack happened, and then we cut it.

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

It was insane. We were a little hesitant about it. And we ended up cutting it. We cut it. You know, there's all these memes online about how the owl really wants you to learn a language. And it goes through great lengths, including kidnapping your family. this was a video about kidnapping. And we were a little hesitant about it, and then the October 7 attack happened, and then we cut it.

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

And then we cut it last year, and we thought, well, you know what, we may use it next year. This year came along, again, we cut it. It just, you know, and then we came up with an internal thing that, like, a year when we can play that, it's probably been a good year for humanity. Yeah. Yeah. We're probably never going to play that.

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

And then we cut it last year, and we thought, well, you know what, we may use it next year. This year came along, again, we cut it. It just, you know, and then we came up with an internal thing that, like, a year when we can play that, it's probably been a good year for humanity. Yeah. Yeah. We're probably never going to play that.

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

And then we cut it last year, and we thought, well, you know what, we may use it next year. This year came along, again, we cut it. It just, you know, and then we came up with an internal thing that, like, a year when we can play that, it's probably been a good year for humanity. Yeah. Yeah. We're probably never going to play that.

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

Oh, man.

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

Oh, man.

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

Oh, man.

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

You're asking for languages. That's a hard one. It's a huge language. I know, I know. It's the native language of Gandhi, the current prime minister of India. There is this unfortunate thing about being a huge language versus desire to learn it. It's a pretty big difference. Hindi is probably the one that has the most desire to learn it in terms of Indian languages.

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

You're asking for languages. That's a hard one. It's a huge language. I know, I know. It's the native language of Gandhi, the current prime minister of India. There is this unfortunate thing about being a huge language versus desire to learn it. It's a pretty big difference. Hindi is probably the one that has the most desire to learn it in terms of Indian languages.

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

You're asking for languages. That's a hard one. It's a huge language. I know, I know. It's the native language of Gandhi, the current prime minister of India. There is this unfortunate thing about being a huge language versus desire to learn it. It's a pretty big difference. Hindi is probably the one that has the most desire to learn it in terms of Indian languages.

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

It's a tiny number of people that are learning it. It's got to be, I don't know exactly off the top of my head, but it's certainly well below 1% of our learners are learning Hindi. I'm going to guess 0.1% of our learners are learning Hindi. That's a guess that I have.