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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