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Luis Von Ahn

Luis von Ahn (born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.

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Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

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