"Duolingo is saying no, non, nein, and nyet to San Francisco. The language learning app is headquartered in Pittsburgh, which isn't exactly known as a booming hub of startups and venture capital. But Duolingo said in a post on LinkedIn that it will never open a San Francisco office, in part because it helps them maintain the culture they want."
"The language learning app is headquartered in Pittsburgh, which isn't exactly known as a booming hub of startups and venture capital. But Duolingo said in a post on LinkedIn that it will never open a San Francisco office, in part because it helps them maintain the culture they want. "We built our headquarters here because we believe you don't have to chase trends or sky-high rent prices to do meaningful work," Duolingo wrote in a blog post last year."
Duolingo is headquartered in Pittsburgh and has declared it will not open a San Francisco office to protect the company culture. The company emphasizes that Pittsburgh is a deliberate choice, not a backup plan to the Bay Area, and cites avoiding sky-high rent and trend-chasing as reasons. U.S. offices also operate in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle. The company positions Pittsburgh as intentionally distinct from Silicon Valley and suggests that building outside San Francisco helps tune out Bay Area noise despite the broader pressure for startups to cluster near the Bay Area.
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