Sal Khan
Sal Khan

Sal Khan

Founder & CEO, Khan Academy
Born: October 11, 1976
Location: Metairie, Louisiana
Nationality: United States
Residence: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Businesses: Khan Academy

Biography

Sal started Khan Academy in 2005 to help his cousins (and soon other people’s cousins).

In addition to setting the vision and direction for Khan Academy, he still makes a lot of videos (although he’s not the only one anymore).

In 2020, Khan launched Schoolhouse.world, a free non-profit initiative to provide small-group tutoring for students across the world.

Sal holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard.

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More on GMN

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Don’t Settle for a Narrow Vision

Don’t Settle for a Narrow Vision

Sal Khan talks about some of the paths he could have taken -- which would all have been fine -- but would not have resulted in the broad, far-reaching impact of the Kahn Academy. See how thinking bigger can make a huge difference.

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Growing Pains

Growing Pains

Sal talks about some of the challenges he’s faced as the Khan Academy has grown from a startup to an organization with more than 200 employees -- getting help from people who’ve been there before is essential.