'We did self-driving cars, virtual reality we talked about life extension, and robots.' 'So the last couple of seminars we've been talking about technologies that will potentially change the world,' the 39-year-old Louisiana native tells the students. Most Fridays, the lunch option includes a Socratic dialogue with Khan himself on a wide range of issues, ideas and trends. Khan Academy has helped millions of people around the world - perhaps hundreds of millions - learn math, science and other subjects for free.īut these days, just one flight of stairs down from his office, there is a real school that couldn't be more different in form and structure from those online lectures. 'OK, let F of X equal A times X to the N plus,' he says cheerfully as he begins his latest. Khan holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, sits in the main room of his laboratory school in Silicon Valley.Īfter some 10,000 online tutorials in 10 years, Sal Khan still starts most days at his office desk in Silicon Valley, recording himself solving math problems for his Khan Academy YouTube channel. Khan has been profiled by '60 Minutes,' featured on the cover of Forbes, and recognized as one of TIME’s '100 Most Influential People in the World.' In his book, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, Sal outlines his vision for the future of education.

More than 42 million registered users access Khan Academy in dozens of languages across 190 countries. Additionally, Khan Academy offers free personalized SAT test prep in partnership with the test developer, the College Board. Its resources cover preschool through early college education, including math, grammar, biology, chemistry, physics, economics, finance and history. Khan Academy believes learners of all ages should have unlimited access to free educational content they can master at their own pace. Today Khan Academy has more than 100 employees in Mountain View, California. So many people watched the videos that eventually Khan quit his job at a hedge fund and pursued Khan Academy full time. Khan's cousin was struggling with math, so he tutored her remotely and posted educational videos on YouTube. Khan Academy started as a passion project in 2004. Salman 'Sal' Khan is the founder and chief executive officer of Khan Academy, a not-for-profit with a mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

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