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How This Founder Built A Billion-Dollar Duolingo Competitor
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23:55Now PlayingSpeak CEO and Cofounder Connor Zwick sat down with Forbes to discuss how Speak uses generative AI to help users build fluency through spoken conversation rather than rote memorization. Zwick also discussed the company's counterintuitive strategy of launching in South Korea to battle-test their product before entering the US market, and his long-term vision for the role of AI in education.
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