This product by Duolingo has come up 5 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Luis von Ahn, Tim Ferriss, Vitalik Buterin. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-03-11 and the most recent from 2023-12-06. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Steve Jang on Korea’s Exploding “Soft Power” And Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show
“dualingo has become this incredible resource worldwide so I did use some Duolingo I then supplemented that”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Steve Jang: Founder and managing partner of Kindred Ventures, top-100 Forbes Midas List VC, early Uber/Coinbase/Postmates investor, film executive producer, and Korean-American (gyopo). Steve Jang explains, from Seoul, how Korea engineered its global soft-power surge through Han, conglomerates, and an export-driven culture.
Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder of Duolingo — How to Be (Truly) Mission-Driven, 10x Growth, and More
“he's currently the co-founder and ceo of duolingo a language learning platform created to bring free language education to the world”— Luis von Ahn
The guest here is Luis von Ahn: Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, pioneer of crowdsourcing, co-inventor of CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA, MacArthur Fellow, and consulting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Duolingo's CEO on monetizing free education, metric-based teams, going public, catching cheaters, and expanding beyond languages.
Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder of Duolingo — How to Be (Truly) Mission-Driven, 10x Growth, and More
“it's dual lingo abc that teaches kids when we were working on it we thought kids three to six turns out kids get there's like a downward pressure for learning”— Luis von Ahn
The guest here is Luis von Ahn: Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, pioneer of crowdsourcing, co-inventor of CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA, MacArthur Fellow, and consulting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Duolingo's CEO on monetizing free education, metric-based teams, going public, catching cheaters, and expanding beyond languages.
Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder of Duolingo — How to Be (Truly) Mission-Driven, 10x Growth, and More
“it's called the duolingo english test so what it is is a standardized english proficiency exam so basically you go there you take a test for call it 30 minutes”— Luis von Ahn
The guest here is Luis von Ahn: Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, pioneer of crowdsourcing, co-inventor of CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA, MacArthur Fellow, and consulting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Duolingo's CEO on monetizing free education, metric-based teams, going public, catching cheaters, and expanding beyond languages.
Vitalik Buterin — Creator of Ethereum feat. Naval Ravikant
“i also use duolingo as well that's been helpful in some cases so just like a combination of these techniques”— Vitalik Buterin
The guest here is Vitalik Buterin: Creator of Ethereum, who discovered blockchain through Bitcoin in 2011, co-founded Bitcoin Magazine, and wrote the Ethereum white paper in 2013. He leads Ethereum's research team and was a 2014 Thiel Fellow; co-guest Naval Ravikant acts as interviewer. Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, interviewed by Naval Ravikant, explains Ethereum, scaling, DeFi, tokens, public goods, and life extension.
