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.

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 ...

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 ...

Luis von Ahn is the CEO of the language-learning app Duolingo and one of the creators of CAPTCHA technology. When hiring new employees, von Ahn said that "it's better to have a hole than an a--hole." ...

Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn knows exactly what to do with lazy employees. "You can turn somebody from being a lazy person to being the most committed person if they honestly believe that the company ...

Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) held its fourth-quarter 2024earnings callon February 27, 2025, reporting what CEO Luis von Ahn described as "an outstanding record quarter." The company saw daily active ...

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 ...