Recode Decode: Rosetta Stone President Matt Hulett

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Matt Hulett, the president of education company Rosetta Stone, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the company’s pivot away from language-learning CDs and into a more advanced and “approachable” mobile app. He also talks about his “promiscuous” background in the tech industry; Rosetta Stone’s literacy catch-up program for children, Lexia Learning; and the bigger picture of how language education is changing around the world. Plus: What’s the best way to make learning stick, and will Elon Musk’s Neuralink or some other moonshot technical development make learning languages unnecessary? Featuring: Matt Hulett, president of Rosetta Stone (@matt_hulett / @RosettaStone) Hosts: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large More to explore: Subscribe for free to Pivot, Kara’s podcast with NYU Professor Scott Galloway that offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode and @voxdotcom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from Slack.
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0:36.3	Hi, I'm Karr Swisher, editor at large of ReCode.
0:38.7	You may know me as someone who wants to be fluent in every language,
0:41.5	but only swear words.
0:42.6	But in my spare time, I'm a technology journalist
0:44.9	and you're listening to ReCode Decode,
0:46.4	a podcast about tech politics and media
0:49.0	were part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:51.8	Today in the red chair is Matt Hewlett,
0:54.0	the president of education company Resetta Stone
0:57.0	after he got there in 2017,
0:59.2	the company stopped selling CDs for learning a new language
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