Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahnis 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...
NationalityGuatemalan
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryGuatemala
world stones pay
The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500.
book technology tickets
Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.
watches tvs watching-tv
I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.
annoying seconds
[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.
technology men moon
The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?
technology people impossible
Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.