Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)

Hey everyone, it's Guy here. So it is the holidays, and this week we're gonna bring you a conversation from our archive. It's with Sal Khan, and he tells a story of how he started Khan Academy, which is a free online tutoring service. That now has over 170 million registered users and lessons in over fifty languages. This episode first ran back in 2020. It is such a good one, one of our absolute favorites, and I hope you love it. It was incredibly stressful. And we were digging into our savings about five or six thousand dollars a month. Uh and you know, but my male ego was trying to shelter my family fr from it. So I was putting on a strong face to my friends and family, and you know, you can imagine my mother Mm. You know, when I told her I'd quit my job, I you know, I I still rem her first word was

What? Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. Built. I'm Guy Roz, and on the show today, how a random decision to help a cousin with her math homework led Sal Khan to build Khan Academy, a free online teaching platform.

with nearly thirty million users a month. So most of the products and services we've talked about on the show have been innovative or disruptive in some way. But some of them, and you've heard me say this before. Have fundamentally changed the way we live. А мін Ліф, Арбен Б, старбукс, Shopify, Wayfair.

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