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☆ Duolingo CEO explains his approach to 'founder mode' — and what happens when executives disagree
  + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn talked about his data-driven approach to "founder mode." A debate over founder mode was recently sparked by Paul Graham's essay advocating hands-on leadership. AdvertisementAmid the wider debate in Silicon Valley about how a CEO should run their company, Duolingo's chief executive is siding with a data-driven approach to founder mode. "Yes, I am in that mode, but we have a number of people who could probably play that role as well," von Ahn said when asked about founder mode. While this my-way-or-the-highway approach feels very indicative of founder mode, arguments rarely happen between the three executives, von Ahn said in the interview.
Persons: Luis von Ahn, Paul Graham's, —, He's, Cem Kansu, Ryan Sims, von Ahn, Paul Graham, Graham, Brian Chesky, Von Ahn, Duolingo, let's, Sims Organizations: Service Locations: Silicon Valley
☆ Duolingo Is the Meanest App in the App Store. Gen Z Loves It.
  + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
After all, I knew perfectly well what I'd signed up for: learning Portuguese from the biggest asshole on the App Store. It might be an overstatement to call tough love the secret sauce for engaging Gen Z customers. It followed that in 2023 with a send-up of personal-injury-attorney TV ads: "Lawyer Fights Duolingo Owl for $2,700,000." Despite the research, Duolingo insists its guilt-tripping notifications do the trick of enticing people to drop whatever they're doing to log on to the app. When Duolingo's head of product, Cem Kansu, posted a thread in 2020 about the success of "the passive aggressive reminder," several unhappy Duolingo users chimed in.
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