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Duolingo CTO on Building an AI-First Culture | WSJ Leadership Institute
WSJ Newsยท 2025-09-16 17:12
Um well we are going to start with the memo that Ben mentioned. It was issued by your CEO in April about four months ago and it called for Dolingo to become quote AI first. And in it your CEO wrote that Dolingo would stop using contractors to do work that AI could handle and headcount would only be given if a team could not automate more of their work.So just a quick summary and the memo it was controversial because of its perceived stance on favoring AI instead of humans and you've since faced backlash fro ...