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Severin Hacker

@severinhacker

@duolingo co-founder and CTO.

New York, NY Katılım Mart 2009
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Severin Hacker@severinhacker·
Unpopular opinion: The most dangerous thing on the road right now is a human holding a steering wheel.
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You can separate the world into those who have used Claude Code and/or OpenClaw in the last few weeks, and everyone else.
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Why is there no American coffee? We accept the "coffee belt" as law. I don't. I am funding research at UF to use genomics to make coffee thrive in Florida. Let's grow the impossible. @lfelipeferrao
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Duolingo@duolingo·
You have 19 days to learn Spanish for Bad Bunny's halftime show, don't disappoint me.
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The second best feature of a mechanical watch is the lack of notifications.
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will brown@willccbb·
@severinhacker the point of a PhD is not to get a PhD, it’s to do a PhD
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Should you get a PhD in CS/AI? Both seem to be true: 1. 95% of PhDs would have done equally well career-wise without one. 2. 95% of real AI breakthroughs (ImageNet, Transformers) came from PhDs.
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A belief I hold: 1 book every 2 months, 5% retention, 1 idea implemented in real life. That will make you outperform 95% of your peers. It has to be a book, not a thread or a podcast.
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Dexter Tan@ddexterr_·
@KarelMercx Duolingo served its purpose and I am thankful for @LuisvonAhn + @severinhacker . By spending 45 mins on it daily in the morning (anywhere), I am able to converse in Indonesian in a casual setting. That was my intent, to do that w my friends and specific individuals.
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Duolingo@duolingo·
lost my streak and now i’m spiraling
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Severin Hacker@severinhacker·
I’ve been using tonal for 3+ years. Underrated product.
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Severin Hacker@severinhacker·
At @duolingo, part of our “secret sauce” is our home-built analytics and experimentation platform. The PMs and Engineers we’ve hired from well-established tech companies (i.e. Google, Spotify, Meta) often say it’s the best they’ve seen. This platform allows us to test, learn, and scale ideas faster than anyone else in the consumer mobile space. Most importantly, it helps us move at super-speed towards our goal of making learning both effective and delightful for millions of learners.
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@levelsio@levelsio·
Maybe this could be @paulg's second act after building Y Combinator which is responsible for so many unicorns @paulg, born a Brit, now living in the UK (we can still classify it as Europe), would be the person who could save Europe's tech scene Give him a "startup free pass" and let him start a project to fund European startups within a special low regulation and low tax framework EU Combinator or whatever you want to call it
@levelsio@levelsio

You could have taken the $1.5B invested here and put it as seed rounds to 15,000 AI startups in Europe While giving them a special free "startup pass" with no regulation and no taxes for the next 5-10 years You'd get mushroom growth of AI startups in Europe 1% or 150 of those startups would become a big success, and 0.5% or 75 of those would become a unicorn, 0.2% or 30 would IPO and become publicly listed European success stories in AI

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Severin Hacker@severinhacker·
Pretty sure I spent half my life vitamin D deficient because of high latitude winters.
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Severin Hacker@severinhacker·
The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha is the book I recommend THE most when people ask for career advice. Underrated, practical, and right. After 32 you should never have to apply to jobs again. Your network should bring every opportunity.
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@lfelipeferrao @willccbb @KarelMercx @LuisvonAhn @duolingo @levelsio @paulg @vladimiroane