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Luis von Ahn — Guatemalan Businessman born on December 30, 1979,

Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform... (wikipedia)

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

Luis von Ahn Quotes

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