Millions to Billions — Achieving Worldwide Impact

What is the most impactful transformation that you would say the Khan Academy has brought about in education worldwide?

So I think on this journey we're at the early stages I talked to our team I consider us, we are at the very early stages of phase 3, of Khan Academy. Phase one was me tutoring my family, me in a walk-in closet, trying to kind of do a homebrew version of all of this. Phase 2 started around 2009 , 2010 when I quit my day job trying to find philanthropists who would support it, eventually I did. And then we started building a team out to show that this can scale and we've gotten to the scale of tens of millions and hundreds of millions of folks. Phase 3 is I genuinely think that we need to start moving the dial for nations, and so this is us working closely with districts working closely with governments, with credentialing bodies and going from hundreds of millions of users to billions because we really do want to reach everyone on the planet.

So schools are using more online tools. Do you think they're doing a good enough job with doing that? So for me, we're often associated with online and technology. And my whole thing is if folks want it, a lot of time people fall into the trap of using technology for technology's sake. And that happens a lot in Silicon Valley where someone comes up with something cool, and then they have a solution in search of a problem. I think it should always be the other way around. It should be hey, let's really get our hands dirty in the problem, let's understand what needs to be solved, and then let's use whatever tools are at our disposal to solve them.