In Q4 2025, Duolingo announced it would let go of $50M in bookings to reach 100 million daily active users (DAUs) by 2028; a strategy Class Central covered in detail last month.  2026 is its “investment year,” and Q1 was the first quarter of execution. So far, the plan seems to be working. The Expected Results: Low Bookings, High DAUs Duolingo is running multiple tests to improve the free experience: spoken tokens for speaking practice, Speaking Adventures for real-world conversations, and fla

Class Central, yet again, came across a 2U employee’s layoff post on LinkedIn. This is its sixth layoff (that we know of) since 2U acquired edX in 2021. The first one happened in 2022 for profitability’s sake. Since then, the company filed for bankruptcy (mostly due to the debt it took to acquire edX for $800M), took down its bootcamps, exited many university partnerships, and even got delisted from the stock market. The previous layoffs were framed as strategy shifts, realigning operations, o

Online education company 2U implements fifth round of layoffs since its disastrous $800 million acquisition of edX in 2021.

The first time you see Tailwind CSS, you might wonder whether someone accidentally pasted their stylesheet into the HTML. A single button can have a dozen classes just to control its spacing, colors, rounded corners, and hover effects. Are we really supposed to write all that? Each class does a small, specific job. Once you recognize them, you can style an element right where you’re building it, without jumping between files or thinking up another class name. The HTML gets busier, but making c