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The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.
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Duolingo employees are expected to return to the office on September 1 following a 3+2 schedule.
CEO Luis von Ahn didn t aspire to be an entrepreneur. He studied math and invented CAPTCHAs.
After selling two companies to Google, von Ahn decided to improve English language-learning.
Luis von Ahn may be the CEO of the language-learning startup Duolingo, but math is his first love. I did not want to be an entrepreneur or a founder, he tells Insider. I wanted to study math.
So when the 350 employees of his $2.5 billion company are asked to return to Duolingo s Pittsburgh headquarters on September 1, they will be following a simple math formula, or as von Ahn puts it, a 3+2 schedule, where they are in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and work from home the other days.
Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to SuRo Capital s first-quarter 2021 earnings call. [Operator instructions] This call is being recorded today, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. I will now turn the conference over to today s speaker, Adam Bates of SuRo Capital.
Please go ahead.
Chief Financial Officer
Thank you for joining us on today s call. I am joined today by the chairman and chief executive officer of SuRo Capital, Mark Klein; and chief financial officer, Allison Green. Please note that a slide presentation that corresponds to today s prepared remarks by management is available on our website at www.surocap.com under Investor Relations, Events and Presentations. Today s call is being recorded and broadcast live on our website www.surocap.com.
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