Luis
von Ahn
Entrepreneur & Innovator
Duolingo
Luis von Ahn is the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world’s most popular language-learning platform and most-downloaded education app. He is an inventor of CAPTCHA and a current MacArthur Fellow.
Von Ahn coined the term “human computation” in his 2005 PhD thesis.
He’s also sold two companies to Google: a game that generates metadata and reCAPTCHA.
Von Ahn works out for precisely 16 minutes every day.I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted. As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.
Luis von Ahn
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