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Mariano Sorgente Wants You to Learn by Talking
After building blockchain infrastructure and investing at a16z crypto, the Stanford-trained engineer returned to the builder’s seat with ISSEN - a voice tutor born from years of learning Japanese the hard way.
Vu Van
Vu Van is the Vietnamese-born co-founder and CEO of ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant), an AI-powered app that gives non-native speakers instant feedback on English pronunciation, fluency and intonation. She built the idea out of her own struggle to be understood as a Stanford graduate student, teamed up with speech-recognition scientist Xavier Anguera, and has grown ELSA into one of the world's largest AI language platforms, with tens of millions of users across roughly 190 countries. She is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and Endeavor entrepreneur.