Rank #3144
Luis von Ahn
Net worth $1.0B
Education technology · United States
- Born
- Aug 19, 1978
- Age
- 47
- Source
- Education technology
- Residence
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Ph.D, Carnegie Mellon; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Duke Univeristy
Net worth over time
Biography
- Luis von Ahn is the cofounder and CEO of popular language-learning app Duolingo.
- More than 100 million people take language, math and music lessons on Duolingo each month.
- Von Ahn grew up in Guatemala City with his single mom and grandmother. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1996 to attend Duke, then got a computer science Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon in 2005.
- While at Carnegie Mellon, he cofounded the CAPTCHA verification system that distinguishes humans from robots online. He sold reCAPTCHA to Google for an undisclosed sum in 2009.
- Two years later, he started Duolingo, along with cofounder Hacker, a Swiss computer scientist he tapped as the company's CTO.
- He and Hacker took Duolingo public in 2021. It did nearly $750 million in revenue in 2024.
- Von Ahn has dual Guatemalan and U.S. citizenship.
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