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Cem Kansu

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  1. “It's evolved quite a bit I joined Doling Goen with 50 employees. Now we're about So things have changed, and we've gotten a little bit more process. At its”

    2025-06-20 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “They love saying that. First of all, the CEO is the CEO of the product. Not the product manager. The product manager To understand what the user will respond to when you kind of give them What they're going to see in the app. So they have to understand user design really well. Also, have to be able to stretch into business strategy, et cetera. Is why consumer products live and die in the pixels. Attention to detailed matters. Button that's like the dark shade of green versus the light shade of green. Make a difference in user behavior Product manager or a product designer for that record, like people working on the product. Should understand what that means This is also how we build product teams that do a lingo. Everyone should understand. Perfect design. Specifically, what the user is going to see That's going to change user behavior.”

    2025-06-20 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “I think I have a very similar saying I repeat a lot. Consumer products live and die in the pixels. Meaning, if you are working on a consumer product You have to figure out how to make your change pixel perfect for the user. Example, product managers are sometimes viewed as these like. The mini CEO, I decide strategy and then people execute. That is like the worst definition of a product manager that I've ever heard.”

    2025-06-20 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Building our teams that work on revenue and building our features that work on revenue In the Years Moved on to Being our head of product, so I lead the product management team, and now I dabble with all of our product eff”

    2025-06-20 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “No, I like for the stories. I'm feeling damless. Pennsylvania, that's where our headquarters is. And I was the first PM. That was handled the baton for. Were pre revenue, we would like to have revenue. And can you help us figure out? How to monetize. Obviously, I was an early career PM and I knew ads I had worked at Google before. First experiments, my claim to fame at Dolinga was putting ads on Duolingo. As you can imagine, this is. Good fame, yeah, exactly. Good fame and bad fame at the same time. And then I worked on monetization for about six years All of our revenue features, ads. Subscriptions, in app purchases, and everything that's under our subscription umbrella. Subscriptions obviously became the lion's share of Duolingo's revenue, and then I kept on.”

    2025-06-20 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yes. How did that come to be? Yes. So I joined in 2016. It was kind of a dark, rainy day in September. I'll skip the funny part of the story anyway.”

    2025-06-20 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Attention to detail for you. Thank you so much. No, we take pride a lot in the pixel perfect details. Like, I think you'll see them in the product, right? It's like every screen will have a very specific design language. Characters will be very specific, etc. So like, I'm glad you noticed it.”

    2025-06-20 · The Twenty Minute VC · 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source