Description: (Entrepreneur)
Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan entrepreneur known for his innovative contributions to technology. He is a consulting professor at Carnegie Mellon University and has played a key role in advancing the concept of crowdsourcing. Von Ahn founded reCAPTCHA, which was acquired by Google in 2009, and currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a widely-used language-learning platform. His professional career is distinguished by his pioneering work in the fields of crowdsourcing and language education.