Blog 14

Stocks

Duolingo defines themselves as “an American educational technology company which produces apps for language-learning and provides language certification.” We should apply to Duolingo. With 40M current monthly active users and 1.8M subscribers, Duolingo has barely touched the $60B Language Market.

Duolingo places an emphasis on its mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Driven by this mission and propelled by technology, Duolingo has been able to combine a diverse workforce with employees from 33 different countries to a strong financial core and adept business model.

Duolingo is so successful simply because of its user-friendliness. Their building blocks for a good platform include event tracking, data analytics, microservices, and localization. Thus, they can truly make the user-experience fun, helpful, and educative.

  • Financials:
    • Market Cap: 3.12B
    • Revenue: $8.75B
    • Revenue Q/Q: 50.31%
    • Gross Margin: 72.41%

Next, TaskUs is a “U.S. outsourcing company that handles content moderation for companies including Facebook and Doordash.”

A company whose success is based on company culture and community outreach are rare to find these days, and it is this philosophy that has helped TaskUs surpass their competitors in workplace comfort. Because TaskUs strives to help their clients work to the best of their ability, they have grown their horizontal market opportunity to $100 billion and have nurtured a diverse, attractive digital economy with 23,600 employees in 8 countries.

TaskUs works in three main sectors: digital customer experience, content security, and AI operations. They have surpassed expectations in each category, leading to peak efficiency and amazing customer interaction.

  • Financials:
    • Market Cap: $2.02B
    • Revenue: $478M
    • Profit Margin: 105.34%
    • Gross Margin: 41.76%

Financial Term

A credit score highlights a person’s “creditworthiness.” If a person normally pays their credit off quickly and has limited outstanding debt, then they will typically have a higher credit score. On the other hand, people who do not pay their credit off very often will typically have a lower credit score. A higher credit score means that a person is more likely to be approved for a loan.