Duolingo, Inc. Class A Common Stock Citi’s 2026 Global TMT Conference

Yeah. All right. Welcome, everyone. Let's get started. I'm Ron Josey. I lead internet coverage here at Citi. I am thrilled, psyched, excited to have with us today Luis von Ahn, the Co-founder, CEO of Duolingo. Luis, thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Duolingo is one of the, in my mind, most recognized consumer learning fun platforms out there. There's a lot going on, and maybe we'll get started in First of all, thanks for coming.

Thank you. Excited to see you.

Thanks for being here. I think most people know Duolingo, so we can sort of just jump into it. Maybe I'll start with some icebreakers, just to lighten the mood, if you will. The first one to lighten the mood is when I give you this one number or word, what's the first thing that comes to mind? 100 million.

Oh, that's the number of DAUs we want to get to in 2028.

Okay. That's the first thing that comes to mind.

That's it. All right. Love it.

That's our goal. Chess. Love it.

Okay. AI is blank. Exciting for Duolingo, scary for me personally, because I don't know what's going to happen.

Yep. Okay. Green Machine, the name came from how? Where did the name come from, Green Machine?

Green Machine is our process of optimization at Duolingo, and it came from my Chief of Staff, Molly Green.

She invented it. Yeah. I think there was a big wheel back in the day called the Green Machine as well.

Okay. Maybe the last one, more fun, but Duo is so lovable.