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Luis von Ahn Sketchnote From Tools of Titans

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What’s the most popular language app in the world? Duolingo. Luis is its co-founder and CEO at the time of the writing of Tools of Titans. He is a computer science professor who is from Guatemala. Amusingly, in one unit he taught, he created a fake website of a solution to a problem he asked his students to solve. What his students didn’t know was that he tracked their IP addresses thus revealing who took to Google to ‘cheat’. He is also the founding father of those annoying captchas on the Internet. The origin story is from Yahoo where some …

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Phil Libin Sketchnote from Tools of Titans

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Phil Libin is the co-founder of Evernote. Interestingly, he and his crew were fed up trying to meet the needs of an audience so they looked to service their own. Phil mentions a spark with gaming but decided it was over saturated. Productivity was the gap they identified as being outdated. Evernote is born. Phil uses Evernote for everything Evernote. It’s not a personal management device. The elephant represents the ability to recall information while the green represents the backdrop elephants can be seen in. The Cost of Tripling in Size: Hiroshi Mikitani This is a bit of a stretch …

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