Lingo Live

Our goal is to be the best in the world at one thing: connecting you, anytime and anywhere that is convenient, with a live teacher that knows exactly what you need to learn.

Founded 2013
16-50 employees
  • Education
  • Headquarters address
    340 S Lemon Ave #4759, Walnut, CA 91789

    Our Story

    Lingo Live started based on our founder Tyler's personal experience learning Spanish.

    In 2011, Tyler was was searching for an instructor to teach him Spanish to get him ready for a trip to Cuba. What he wanted was a private tutor, that was available after 8pm, and didn't cost an arm-and-a-leg. That was, and still is, very difficult to find. He just wanted to speak to a native. A visit to Craigslist introduced him to Kathy, a Guatemalan who taught over Skype, and she gave him lessons at 10pm every night. It was cheap, convenient, and fun so he kept going with it. After 2 years of taking lessons with Kathy, Tyler was fluent in Spanish and realized that this could be a business.

    Today, Lingo Live is an online school that teaches employees at multinational companies to learn to speak a foreign language. 90% of our business is teaching English to non-native English speakers.

    Over the past 3 years, we have grown revenue 300% Year over Year and the average customer has quadrupled their spend with us. We are one of the fastest-growing education technology companies in the country and are fortunate to call leading innovators like Twitter, Google and NBC Universal as our customers. Lessons take place on our platform around the clock in countries across every continent except Antartica ;)

    How We Do It

    We know that learning a foreign language is hard. We believe the only way you'll actually learn to speak a language is if the learning marries relevancy, motivation and accountability. We do this by connecting our students with a live teacher that knows exactly what they need.

    We use software to facilitate this live interaction by (i) connecting students and teachers in the most optimal way through our algorithm, (ii) allowing students to manage their lesson schedule through a flexible scheduling system, and (iii) showing students and HR/Learning & Development customers their return on investment through a delightful progress dashboard that shows progress and engagement across the organization globally.

    What's It Like To Work At Lingo Live?

    Lingo Live is the very definition of a scrappy, hyper-growth company. After graduating from the ERA accelerator in April of 2014, we raised $1.2 million from some of the world's leading VCs and grew our team to 10 people covering sales, customer success, product, engineering, and learning (teacher training/curriculum development).

    Our team is young, hungry and hard-working. We like people who get things done, like to listen to their peers, and, every now and then, like to end the day by shamelessly belting out Queen's greatest hits at late night karaoke outings. We also love languages, and have a passion for our community of international students and teachers. We treat each other with respect and kindness. As a member of our growing team, you will have A LOT of responsibility to ensure we can continue to achieve amazing growth. Detailed business KPI's drive every employee's day-to-day and are reviewed company-wide on a monthly basis.

    Tech stack

    Rails, Heroku, Postgres

    Benefits

    Compensation and retirement

    401k plan

    Health and wellness

    Insurance (Health)
    Insurance (Dental)
    Insurance (Vision)

    Values and quality of life

    Catered meals
    Lingo Live - Company Photo