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slash crunch IT pro dot t. crunch. Here's your daily crunch. We take a look at the Duo Lingo EC1, Twitter

Spaces opens up more broadly, and Epic Games acquires Art Station. The big story is we just published a deep dive into one of the most fascinating

companies in the Ed Tech Arena, Duolingo. Per hour reporting in a brand new EC1 investigating the company, Duolingo has scaled to 500 million users and

190 million dollars in 2020 bookings.

Ed Tech is now big business, and after a history of being a place where venture capital goes to

die it's instead a red-hot sector with a more healthy set of exit opportunities.

In Tech Giants, Twitter Spaces, the company's new live audio rooms feature, is opening up more

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