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#135: Luis Von Ahn on Learning Languages, Building Companies, and Changing the World

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What Did You Learn in Those Early Days of Copying Games?

When did you leave guatewalla, i was 17. I came here for college. A, i wanted to become a math major and it turns out in this little country, there was no way to becoming a math major. Ah, not being scared of kidnappings, et cetera, that was pretty niceitof the luxury t luxuries of life like electricity reliably. And what did your parents do? They were both doctors, medical doctors. But my mother, she was a doctor, but she only practised for like six monthsa, after that, she inherited a candy factory from her mother. So my mother owned a candy factory. As i grew up basically in

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