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j_baker on June 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M

$50 million seems like an arbitrary amount of revenue to expect DuoLingo to pull in. How do you come up with that number?

balazsdavid987 on June 10, 2015 | [–]

I think it came from dividing the $470M valuation with 10 and rounding up.

coob on June 11, 2015 | [–]

Rosetta Stone pull in that much per quarter.

And manage to run at loss, with it.

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