Podcast Episodes featuring Luis von Ahn

American Dreaming with José Díaz-Balart: Luis von Ahn

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt - October 27, 2020 17:28 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 2K ratings
Luis von Ahn is the genius behind CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and also the founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform. Born and raised in Guatemala, von Ahn saw firsthand that high-quality educational opportunities were limited t...

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn

How I Built This with Guy Raz - May 25, 2020 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29.2K ratings
In 2000, Luis von Ahn was starting his PhD in computer science when he attended a talk and happened to learn about one of Yahoo's biggest problems: automated bots were signing up for millions of free Yahoo email accounts, and generating tons of spam. Luis' idea to solve this problem beca...

#135: Luis Von Ahn on Learning Languages, Building Companies, and Changing the World

The Tim Ferriss Show - January 26, 2016 21:39 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 14.3K ratings
Luis von Ahn (@luisvonahn) is an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur Fellow ("genius grant" recipient), and selling two companies to Google in his 20's. Luis has been named one of the 10 Most Br...