Company · Cybersecurity · Technology · founded 2007

reCAPTCHA

CAPTCHA service first released in May 2007, developed at Carnegie Mellon University by a team including Luis von Ahn and Manuel Blum. Google acquired it in September 2009.

Of the 1 person here linked to reCAPTCHA, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at reCAPTCHA

Founder

Role

Inventor and founder, 2007–2009

Also at

Duolingo

Source · medium confidence. The service was first released in May 2007 and Google acquired it in September 2009. The page lists him among its creators; it does not describe a role at Google afterwards, so no Google affiliation is recorded.

Past

Technology · Software 2 / 3

Luis von Ahn

Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo; inventor of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA

professional-class · well-connected · graduate degree