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This flavor of unhinged marketing was made famous by Duolingo. In 2020, the language education app started inserting its company mascot, a green owl, into increasingly comical and strange ...
Here, CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn tells the BBC why their insistent owl works so well. The day I started working on this story about Duolingo it seemed to be everywhere. I heard from a friend ...
And of course, I asked him whether he approves of all the unhinged things the Duolingo owl says on social media. Okay, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn. Here we go. This transcript has been lightly ...
I am downgrading Duolingo to a “sell” as I believe its valuation is stretched, along with headwinds from macroeconomic uncertainty, muted revenue guidance, and tougher comps. While investors ...
Luis von Ahn is the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning app with more than 31 million monthly active users. The public company has a market cap of over $9 billion.
To keep users engaged, Duolingo employs a streak system, tracking consecutive days of activity. Characters like Duo, the green owl, and Lilly, the goth teen, send daily reminders to motivate users ...
In Q2, the number of premium users subscribing to unlock additional features surged 52% year on year, reaching 8m. I’m one of those paying subscribers. The big green Duolingo owl is on my case daily, ...