In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate … - Luis von Ahn

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All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.

Luis von Ahn

In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to transform education. I was particularly inspired by my upbringing in Guatemala, a poor country where high-quality educational opportunities are limited to those who have money.

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Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.

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The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

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My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

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Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

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The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500.

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