How to pronounce“duolingo”in English

Duolingo was going to be a good business.

Duolingo is known to be quirky, mission-driven, deeply human.

Duolingo is they'll tell you something to the effect of, well, I used to X.

So Duolingo achieved a 50/50 ratio-- it was two years ago in the tech team.

for Duolingo for anger.

I downloaded Duolingo.

Tools like Duolingo, obviously, create environments where anyone with free time can learn a new language.

When we started Duolingo it was not just me, it was me and my co-founder whose name is Severin Hacker who is very funny because his last name is Hacker.

Ever since we launched Duolingo it has grown a lot.

at the start because Duolingo was trying to change the status quo a little bit.

You launched the Duolingo English Test to take on legacy giants like TOEFL, which actually many people in this room have taken.

Most resumes at Duolingo look like all of you, super fancy school, perfect GPA, etc.

You stopped giving us Duolingo outfits, which we'll talk about at launch.

Speaker 1: Duolingo for anger.

And that's the whole premise of Duolingo.

So what we do with Duolingo, the way we finance Duolingo is that whenever we teach somebody a lesson, so we may teach them about food words in a given language, at the end, once

Speaker 1: The TOEFL or the Duolingo English Test, Hopefully Duolingo English too.

So when have you been unreasonable at Duolingo?

I think that one way of viewing Duolingo is, actually the most common thing that happens when you ask people why they're using

Speaker 4: One of the things that Duolingo managed to do really well in the EdTech space is solve the retention problem a little bit.

We have run in the history of Duolingo 16,000 AB tests.

I'm really inspired how Duolingo is able to preserve some of the lesser known languages.

So why were you so hungry to build something new with Duolingo?

good, because Duolingo is actually teaching them something.

What makes a skill or subject the right fit for Duolingo's learning approach?

Just last week, Duolingo made big news when you release an email that you send to all of your employees about AI's new role in the

Speaker 1: For the first 50 employees of Duolingo, I was a micromanager, and I actually claim that was not that bad.

For those of you who are not as familiar with Duolingo, if you're years at the app, you'll probably get incessant reminders and notifications.

Speaker 1: So if you need a job at marketing at Duolingo, let me tell you .

These were not like the other resumes at Duolingo.

But now some of that time is spent using Duolingo, and at least I'm learning some Spanish.

Speaker 2: Companies love to say that they're Duolingo for blank.

Which is why with Duolingo we decided to make a completely free way to learn a language.

There in fact in the United States there are more people learning a language on Duolingo then in the entire U.S. public school system.

And it's a small world, because Duolingo's CFO, who is also here in the audience today, used to sit in my chair

Can you tell us about that vision and what you think AI will enable Duolingo to do now that even you couldn't have imagined

And of course, it got spun into Duolingo firing all its employees.

And I think he has created a really good culture that toxic people at Duolingo either are not there

Now within education, people are figuring out Duolingo is probably the most sophisticated at it.

So all the things that the social networking companies learned are applied in Duolingo.

So what I would like to do, and this is the thing with Duolingo, we would like to make it so that everybody has access to the absolute best type of education, regardless of whether

You can learn everything there is to learn on Duolingo without ever practicing this way.

Speaker 2: It did, he finished his PhD thesis after we started Duolingo.

Speaker 1: Yeah, so we have this test called the Duolingo English Test.

For example, we've always wanted to get people to practice conversation on Duolingo.

Before more than two years ago, you could not practice conversation on Duolingo and the only way in which we had to get you to

How do you think about who to bring in or who not to as you scale Duolingo and help the company continue to grow?

That is something that we actively work on and it is something that the product organization at Duolingo has been frustrated about for

Speaker 5: If you could go back in time to when you first started building out Duolingo, what would be the one