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This blog post of mine hit HN and led to Duolingo's CTO and co-founder offering me a job back in 2016: https://steveridout.com/2016/01/04/readlang-3-years-as-a-one...

I joined them shortly after and a year later I sold Readlang to them. In 2021 Duolingo IPO'd and I'm now financially independent, which may not have happened if not for writing about it on my personal blog.

(Oh, and I really ought to write another blog post about buying Readlang back from Duolingo last month!)




This is encouraging, as someone starting both a personal blog and a newsletter about language learning in chinese[1], I hope a blog is an easier path into an audience than the competitive lang app market.

[1]: https://chinesememe.substack.com/p/the-sound-of-encroaching-...




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