Luis von Ahn
Analyst · Raymond James. Please go ahead
Great question. So in terms of regional pricing, just to give some background, when we IPO-ed or right before we IPO-ed, we had the same price in every single country in the world. We knew, of course, that was not optimal. And what we’ve done since then, we started trying different prices in a few countries. And so far, there are four countries where we’ve launched different prices. And we are working on doing it, basically for every country in the world. The reason you can’t change this super-fast is because everything we do, of course, we A/B test. And these A/B tests take a little while to run because whenever we run a new price on something, first of all, we try multiple prices, and then what we’re doing is it takes a while for people we know whenever they sign up on Duolingo, it takes a while for them to subscribe for some of them. And also, we have to measure renewal rates, which take a while to measure. So, some of this takes some time. But I’d say throughout this year, we are going to basically probably have different prices in every single country now. What I will say is this is just one of many levers that we have for increasing conversion and also increasing bookings. Ultimately, the way we increase our bookings and our penetration of paid subscribers is by running again, hundreds of A/B tests. This is just one of those levers. And I will say the other thing about regional pricing is we believe that this will have an impact. However, it’s not probably not going to have this insane impact that some people may believe where like it’s going to double revenue or something because what’s happening is that the countries that we get most of our bookings from usually are the developed countries of the U.S., Western Europe, etcetera. In those places, the prices are unlikely to change too much. Now in the places where the prices are likely to change more, these are usually more kind of developing countries or whether the GDP per capita is lower. There we will change – our product is really too expensive, so we will probably lower the prices but will end up happening. But there is more than one barrier in many of those countries for people to subscribe, probably the price is one. Another one is just that in many of these countries, digital subscriptions are just not that mature as they are in a country like the U.S. or in Western Europe. So we see regional pricing as something that is a necessary condition for us to really make a lot more bookings from many of these countries, but not necessarily a sufficient condition. So that’s just something that is important. I will also answer, you asked about schools. The schools initiatives, so just also to give you some context, we have this thing called Duolingo for Schools, it is a dashboard that teachers can use when they are students – so the students are using just the normal Duolingo app and Duolingo for Schools is that’s where the teachers can use to track their students’ progress. We relaunched Duolingo for Schools in 2021. That did really well and we’re seeing it definitely get more and more adoption in schools. Right now, our best belief, by the way, we don’t know exactly how many schools use us because they don’t have to tell us necessarily that they use us. So our best belief is that about 40% of U.S. language teachers use Duolingo for Schools. And that’s in the U.S., there are some other numbers internationally. So we’re seeing that help with adoption. So far, we don’t have any reports on what exactly this does for our subscriptions, but we are assuming that many of these students in the end, ultimately are subscribing as well. So the main thing that this is helping with is growing our user base.