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Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn Discusses the Incredible Story of ReCaptcha - His First Startup - YouTube

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The Founder and CEO of DuoLingo, Luis Von Ahn, discusses his first startup – ReCaptcha – which he sold to Google back in 2009. ReCaptcha specialised in creating software to fight Internet spammers. Luis, a funny and gifted presenter, shares the insights and remarkable creativity they used to both fight the war against spam as well as ingeniously converting the work of bad actors into pro-social services. In addition to being CEO of Duolingo, Luis is also a Consulting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University The Thinking Digital Conference is an annual gathering of creatives, innovators,…

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