Duolingo, Inc. Appoints John Lilly as New Independent Board Director and Member of the Compensation and Leadership Committee
December 14, 2021 at 08:00 am
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Duolingo, Inc. has appointed John Lilly as a new independent board director and member of the Compensation and Leadership Committee. Mr. Lilly has had a prominent career, spanning over 25 years, during which hes held various leadership roles in consumer and enterprise technology. He is a venture partner at Greylock Partners, where he led investments in Instagram, Dropbox, Tumblr, Figma and Quip, among others. John is the former CEO and Board Member of Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, the open-source Web browser. He also co-founded Reactivity, an internet security infrastructure company acquired by Cisco in 2007, where he served as founding CEO and later CTO. Earlier in his career, John held positions on the executive team at Trilogy Software and as a Senior Scientist in Apples research labs.
Duolingo, Inc. is a technology company, which provides a mobile learning platform. The flagship application, Duolingo, is a language learning application. Duolingo is available in the education category on both Google Play and the Apple App Store. Duolingo offers courses in over 40 languages to more than 85 million monthly active users. Duolingo can also be accessed via desktop computers via a Web browser at https://duolingo.com. Both math and music courses are integrated into the Duolingo App and are available on iOS devices. Course content on Duolingo can be accessed for free. Its subscription offering, Super Duolingo, offers learners additional features to enhance their learning experience. It also launched a family plan, which includes up to six subscribers under one annual plan. The Duolingo English Test is an online English proficiency assessment. Anyone with a computer, webcam and Internet connection can take the test from anywhere, at any time.