Morning Short Podcast: The Corner Office Dialogue at Luis von Ahn CEO and Co-founder of Duolingo
From Carnegie Mellon’s classroom to global cultural phenomena, the episode of Morning Shimenon traces the journey of Captcha’s inventor Luis von Ahn, now CEO and co-founder of Duolingo. Himani Kothari, deputy news editor of Anirban Chowdhury and ET, explores how Luis’s early work fought robots developed into a business that democratizes education through gamified language learning. The original Spanish course and German prototype have grown to 500 million –…Read moreUser platform, powered by Duolingo’s bite-sized courses, quirky owl mascots and rude marketing strategies. The dialogue delves into the expansion of math, music and chess in the company’s partnership with OpenAI and the creative freedom that powers its viral success. As AI becomes the core of the future of learning, Luis weighs its potential to enhance rather than replace human education. Can platforms such as Duolingo balance the joy, functionality and cultural impact of increasing algorithms shaping the world? Listen.
