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Luis von Ahn

Founder and Executive

Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan-American entrepreneur who founded the CAPTCHA-derived reCAPTCHA system, later sold to Google, and in 2011 co-founded the language-learning company Duolingo, which he has led as chief executive through its growth into one of the most widely used education apps in the world and its 2021 public listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Duolingo's free, gamified approach to language instruction, combined with a business model built on optional subscriptions and advertising, grew out of von Ahn's earlier academic research at Carnegie Mellon University into human computation, using small tasks performed by many people to accomplish work computers could not yet do alone.

Facts
Birth Date
1978-08-19 1
Birth Year
1978 1
Birthplace
Guatemala City, Guatemala 1
Nationality
Guatemalan-American 1
Defining Contribution
Founder of reCAPTCHA and co-founder and CEO of Duolingo 1
Notable Work
Duolingo 1
Connections

Associated With

Luis von Ahn co-founded reCAPTCHA and the language-learning technology company Duolingo.

Sources
1. Luis von Ahn - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Born date
    19 August 1978
  • Infobox, Birthplace
    Guatemala City, Guatemala
  • Introduction, opening description
    Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and software developer
  • Introduction, career summary
    He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo.
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