Meet Luis van Ahn: The man you’ve worked for, without knowing it
Aug17
Telling people you’re an associate professor in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University after having completed your PhD at 26 sounds very impressive. For Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn, it’s just a bullet point on his long, formidable résumé. When he was 12 years old, Luis von Ahn came up with a plan to make gyms free. People exercising on machines can generate electricity, he figured, and that energy is valuable. So why not eliminate gym fees, hook all the machines to a power grid, and sell the wattage produced to a major electric company? While that idea didn’t pan out, his two companies…
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