Highlights:
On his mother giving him a Commodore 64 instead of the original 8-bit NES as a child
“Unfortunately, I didn’t have very many games, and I didn’t have very many people that I knew that also had games to share, so I started trying to figure out how to make my own.”
On bridging economic disparity through education
“If you’re in a non-English speaking country and you know English, usually you can make between 20-100% higher salary.”
On CAPTCHAs getting more difficult
“What’s happening ultimately is that computers are getting smarter, and it’s getting harder and harder to find things that humans are better at than computers.”
On DuoLingo’s approach to keeping students motivated
“Our inspiration really, was games. We very early on realized if we want to teach something to somebody over the internet, the biggest problem was staying motivated.”