Andrew Hsu (@adhsu) 's Twitter Profile
Andrew Hsu

@adhsu

cofounder/cto @speak
language learning with AI

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linkhttps://speak.com/careers calendar_today08-10-2009 06:25:26

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Not surprisingly, the company with this graph was successful at fundraising. This is Speak, which just closed a round at a $500m valuation. They've been focusing on AI since long before it was cool, so when the technology matured, it shot them forward.

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When I was on a menswear forum, I remember discussing the question of why there are so many bespoke shoemakers in Tokyo. Some said "it's because the Japanese value craftsmanship. They are noble, not like wasteful Westerners." This sort of handwaving feels unsatisfying to me.

When I was on a menswear forum, I remember discussing the question of why there are so many bespoke shoemakers in Tokyo. Some said "it's because the Japanese value craftsmanship. They are noble, not like wasteful Westerners." This sort of handwaving feels unsatisfying to me.
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We've raised a Series C from Accel valuing Speak at $1b to keep driving toward our mission of reinventing the way people learn, starting with language. This year was great, but we have even bigger plans for 2025 and are hiring exceptional technical talent to work on one of the

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These guys were among the earliest of all the startups we've funded to understand what AI was going to make possible, and they have executed perfectly on that early insight.

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“We’re really an AI native company." Speak CEO Connor Zwick explains how his app uses #AI to get language learners talking! Plus, their growing presence in East Asia, and partnership with OpenAI's startup fund.

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Fun fact: Speak has 65% brand recognition in South Korea and close to 10% of the population has used us to improve their English fluency. Was great talking to Ben Quazzo on how we got our start there!

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The day has finally come! Speak is no longer an English language learning app. You can now learn 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷French, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇰🇷Korean, and 🇮🇹Italian as well! And I'm not talking about memorizing vocab in a dopamine machine, I'm talking about good old fashioned spoken