Interview with Duolingo's Chief Product Officer Jorge Mazal

Jorge Mazal is the Chief Product Officer at Duolingo, the largest language-learning platform and most downloaded education app worldwide. Prior to joining Duolingo, Jorge has held various product roles at San Francisco-based companies MyFitnessPal and Zynga.

In this edition of Going Deep Aaron talks with Jorge about his path in roles associated with product development, how Duolingo is impacting over 40 million active monthly users in the way they learn new languages, and how it continues its user growth through gamification.

Topics:
00:00 Interview with Duolingo's Chief Product Officer Jorge Mazal
00:36 Duolingo and Its Impact
03:37 The Role of Chief Product Officer
07:43 Which Metrics Matter?
10:00 Evolution of Duolingo and the Future
17:28 Jorge's Path to Duolingo
25:38 Development as a Leader
32:22 Duolingo's Constraints
37:12 Jorge's Actionable Personal Challenge