Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn
I’ve been using Duolingo lately in an attempt to learn Japanese. I’ve really been enjoying it – although I do admit to supporting my studies through the app with YouTube videos – and I decided to explore it for this week’s Founder’s Parade. The Learning Technology Venture – Duolingo Duolingo is a not-for-profit (freemium) science-driven […]
Duolingo
Founder and CEO of Duolingo: Luis von Ahn Venture Name: Duolingo (Duolingo.com) Duolingo is a free language learning platform that employs a gamified skill tree and adaptive feedback tools to motivate potential “students” to learn a new language. 1 The software teaches languages to anyone with a smartphone or Internet connection. 2 Users gain experience […]
Luis von Ahn and Duolingo
Luis von Ahn CEO and Co-founder of Duolingo is a free language learning website and app. Its value proposition is that is provides everyone with a fun, effective, world-class language learning experience. To raise money for its ad-free product, Duolingo provides translation services to customers, such as CNN, by leveraging the translation power of the […]
Luis von Ahn: Entrepreneurial Watch List
Luis von Ahn CEO and Co-founder – Duolingo Duolingo is a mobile app designed for language learning. Learners, either basic or intermediate level speakers, are provided short 5-20 minute daily lessons. A series of multiple choice, matching, speaking or translations appear as challenges that are awarded points for successful completion. The lessons are recorded in […]
Luis von Ahn, Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo
Luis von Ahn Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo Duolingo is a free language learning app which uses the principles of gamification to motivate learners. Since its foundation in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo has known continued success gathering over 50 million users. Since its […]
Duolingo – Luis van Ahn
As an investor I believe many of the startups using free and freemium models aren’t finding the success they thought they’d find so I wanted to explore Duolingo’s model. Luis van Ahn is Co-Founder and CEO as well as a professor at Carnegie Melon Company – DuoLingo Duolingo is a dual language learning and text translation […]