
Luis von Ahn, PhD has served as Duolingo's Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board since he co-founded the company with Severin Hacker in August 2011. Previously, von Ahn served as the Chief Executive Officer of reCAPTCHA from 2007 until its acquisition by Google in 2009. He holds a BS in mathematics from Duke University and a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, von Ahn is the son of two doctors, and he grew up exploring the candy factory owned by his mother’s family. The hands-on experience of trying to understand how the factory’s machinery worked fostered his curiosity, and he has said that receiving a Commodore 64 personal computer at age 8 set him on his career path.
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