

Last year, however, Duolingo began hiring people to help with mergers and acquisitions.ĭuolingo’s chief business officer Bob Meese said that “prior to 2022, we were just taking a more reactive ‘wait and see’ approach. The edtech meets entertainment business has historically stayed away from acquisitions in the past, beyond its acqui-hire of Steve Ridout, the founder of an e-reader language learning tool (who then went on to build one of Duolingo’s most popular features to date, Stories). How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo
