How AI Is Revolutionizing Language Learning
Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau host TechMates, the NZVC podcast. The guest on this episode is Finn Puklowski, Founder of Fluency Academy, and it went out on 23 June 2025. It covers the NZVC portfolio company General Compute.
- Guest
- Finn Puklowski, Founder of Fluency Academy
- Date
- 23 June 2025
- Companies
- General Compute
- Watch
- YouTube
- Listen
- Spotify
Finn Puklowski dropped out of high school and went bankrupt in his early twenties before building Fluency Academy, an AI-powered, creator-led language education platform with more than 35 million followers and $50 million in scale. He explains why Brazil was the right market, how the creator economy drives growth, and his view of education and employment in an AI-driven world.
- Lessons from bankruptcy to breakthrough.
- Why Brazil was the perfect market.
- Scaling to $10M revenue bootstrapped.
- AI integration in education.
Companies in this episode
Fluency Academy, EdTech, AI, language learning, creator economy, Brazil, mental health