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Gina Gotthilf

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  1. “Or I want it to be an actress, but then my parents convinced me that I was probably not going to succeed because the odds weren't in my favor. I applied to schools. I didn't get into any Ivy League. I didn't get into any of the top schools I wanted to go to. When I got to college, I actually ended up dropping out because I got so depressed, like incredibly depressed. Couldn't get out of bed depressed. Ironically, I dropped out of Reid College, which is the same college that Steve Jobs dropped out of. So, you know, I was just destined for greatness. I knew it at that moment.”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Look, I think those are the most interesting because they're funny or ridiculous, you know. But I'll just say that I had a lot of B-sides and I still do. For example, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I actually wanted to be and I thought I wanted to be an actress. I either wanted to be that person in C world who goes like this with the dolphin. This is before SeaWorld was canceled.”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “It's very promising. We're at like one third of India, one tenth of China, one thirtieth of the United States, meaning that tech companies can grow a lot so that they occupy that space in the GDP in terms of the GDP, which is believable. So that was the concept of the talk and the reason for this conference.”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Andreessen Horowitz invested in my company, etc. But between all of those highlights, there were so many B moments that get sort of like shoved under the rug because it's just easier for me and it's more impressive for others. But I really like to highlight those because I think that most of us have a lot of B moments every day, every week, every month, and every period of our lives. And it's easy to think that things aren't just not going to work out for us because we're in one of those B moments if we don't recognize them as moments. And the story I ended up telling was how, you know, much like I have these A and B sides that I don't talk about my B sides so much, Latin America also has A and B sides because it's really easy to focus on like it's dangerous. Like we're behind, you know, the governments are a mess. There's like financial insecurity, but there's a lot of A side in there and a lot of the A side is the opportunity we have in terms of tech because in terms of percentage of GDP that tech occupies compared to other markets.”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “In the region as well. And then a lot of unicorns. We've had a lot of unicorns in the region. So they were all there. learnings along the way successes and failures so that people can skip by not making the same mistakes as others. And I was asked to open both days. And then the first day the opening talk that I ended up giving was this concept that I really like, which is the A side and the B side of a story, which is that if you are old like me and maybe you, Lenny, I think we're similar age, you remember what a CD or like or what a mixtape was like and we had the A and the B side. We are very encouraged in our lives, especially professionally, to talk about our A sides all the time because that's what impresses people. That's what opened doors. That's what allows us to keep growing. And it's so important. So it means that a lot of what you hear in podcasts and on stage ends up being the Instagram of Bulver.”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “And like whether we're going to vote this guy or that guy next. And so that's sort of the impetus for the company. The conference was a conference put together by my company. I'm a co-founder. We're three. Brian, Yuri and I. We put this conference together to bring together the top entrepreneurs, operators, and investors across Latin America, but also people who are interested in investing in the region, of which there are more and more here in the US and abroad. More than 5,000 people came. We had over 70 speakers. It was across two days. We had amazing people like Ben Horowitz, who never gave a talk or like did a fireside specifically for and about Latin America and the opportunity. But we also had incredible founders who you, in terms of like US operators, may not be as familiar with, but if you've ever heard of Rapi, it's a really important delivery company in Latin America. So the founder of Rapi flew down from Miami for that. And then we had VCs from a lot of the top names that you've heard here.”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “For sure. And thanks for that, Lenny. Look, I think for us, for those of us here in the US, I became an American last year. I love the US. I've been here for 19 years. It's hard to imagine just how much is going on south of the border. There's actually 660 million people living across Latin America. And it's an economy of $6 trillion. And Brazil is a huge market just in terms of sheer size over 200 million people and also in terms of where the ecosystem is. I am Brazilian, so I am Latin American, even though sometimes Brazilians are not sure if they are Latin American because we speak Portuguese. And so the future of the region really matters to me. And helping people get the opportunities that I've had in terms of access to information and resources that could help them build scalable, very successful startups can really change the economy across the board. I believe in that much more than I believe in”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Lenny, I'm so excited to be here. It's been awesome to see how you've built this and just how far it's gone. Thank you for inviting me.”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Communication is constantly underrated, and communication isn't about being able to convey a message. It's about being able to convey a message in a way that the listener receives it and understands it and remembers it. And that's really hard to do. One of the things I've helped employ at Duolingo that I think is still there today, it's definitely not just me. It was an amazing team, is a unique voice. And what that means is like not just another language learning app where we give you instructions and you follow directions. There is always a quirk. like it's unexpected the way we talk to you is a little bit funny it doesn't take ourselves too seriously and it makes the person receiving this message feel something again it's about how you make people feel in it you feel like either you giggle or you're like wait what they just did what you know and using that to your to your benefit”

    2023-10-19 · Lenny's Podcast · Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source