Duolingo killed its cartoon owl mascot for another 'unhinged' marketing stunt — except in one country
In an elaborate marketing campaign this month, Duolingo seemingly killed its viral green owl mascot in every country but one. "Duo, our owl, faked his death in every single market that we had except ...
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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn Defends the Language App’s A.I. Spend Despite Stock Plunge
Most of Duolingo’s A.I. costs are tied to an OpenAI-powered video call feature introduced last year, CEO Luis von Ahn told analysts yesterday. Offered to subscribers of Duolingo Max, the company ...
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Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is considered one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs ...
Duolingo Ramps AI Investment as User Count Soars
Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) held its fourth-quarter 2024 earnings call on February 27, 2025, reporting what CEO Luis von Ahn ...
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Bill Gates tried to poach the CEO of $700 million Duolingo, and they still keep in touch — here's what they talk about
When Bill Gates calls, you answer. But when Gates offered Luis Von Ahn, the cofounder of language learning app Duolingo, a job on Microsoft's research team, Von Ahn turned it down — a few times.
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Duolingo ‘killed’ its mascot with a Cybertruck, and it’s going weirdly well
Okay, Duo isn’t really dead (we think), but the language learning app committed so hard to this bit that its CEO, Luis von Ahn, read a eulogy for this beloved green bird on TikTok. As any ...
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Duolingo surpassed 40 million daily active users in fourth quarter 2024
The company had 9.5 million paid subscribers. CEO Luis von Ahn emphasized AI and cost optimization strategies to investors. Although Duolingo Inc. may have faked its mascot's death, the company is ...
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Here's how it's rewriting the modern mascot playbook. How Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn gets so much done The Guatemala-born tech founder takes five Duolingo language lessons each day—before 6:30 a ...
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Duolingo 'killed' its mascot with a Cybertruck, and it's going weirdly well
Okay, Duo isn't really dead (we think), but the language learning app committed so hard to this bit that its CEO, Luis von Ahn, read a eulogy for this beloved green bird on TikTok. As any fiction ...
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Duolingo killed its cartoon owl mascot for another 'unhinged' marketing stunt — except in one country
"Duo, our owl, faked his death in every single market that we had except for Japan," Luis von Ahn, the company's CEO, said on an earnings call on Thursday. "It turns out that in Japan, joking ...
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Duolingo Ramps AI Investment as User Count Soars
Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) held its fourth-quarter 2024 earnings call on February 27, 2025, reporting what CEO Luis von Ahn described as "an outstanding record quarter." The company saw daily active ...