Now that we’ve been expanding to Asia, people ask us, “Why the hell are you using an owl? Owls are just vicious animals.” Okay. Turns out this is just not true at all in Asia. First of all, it’s an owl because in most Western countries, owls represent knowledge. Luis von Ahn: Hopefully, most people have seen the Duolingo owl. Would you mind just explaining that for people? Why don’t we start with why the Duolingo owl is green. Tim Ferriss: I thought we could start with just a few bits of trivia, a little bit of history. Luis von Ahn: Thank you for having me, Tim. Last, it was 2016 when we had a conversation on this podcast. Luis, it has been a while since we spoke. Luis also won the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest cash prize for invention in the United States. Luis has been named one of the Brilliant 10 by Popular Science, one of the 50 Best Brains in Science by Discover, one of the Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, and one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. With more than 500 million users, it is now the most popular language learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world.
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He’s currently the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a language learning platform created to bring free language education to the world.
He is known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur fellow, and selling two companies to Google in his 20s. Luis is an entrepreneur and consulting professor at Carnegie Mellon University who’s considered one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. You can find him on Twitter at Luis L-U-I-S V-O-N A-H-N. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show. Tim Ferriss: Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs.
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