Portrait of Severin Hacker

Rank #3108

Severin Hacker

Net worth $1.0B

Education technology · Switzerland

Born
Jan 06, 1984
Age
42
Source
Education technology
Residence
New York, New York
Citizenship
Switzerland
Marital status
Children
0
Education
Ph.D, Carnegie Mellon; Bachelor of Arts/Science, ETH Zurich

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Severin Hacker is the cofounder and chief technology officer of popular language-learning app Duolingo.
  • More than 100 million people take language, math and music lessons on Duolingo each month.
  • Hacker, who grew up in Switzerland, started the company in 2011 with Luis von Ahn, who was his computer science Ph.D. thesis advisor.
  • He and von Ahn took Duolingo public in 2021. It did nearly $750 million in revenue in 2024.

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