At a recent gathering held in Aspen, Colorado called the Aspen Ideas Festival, where leaders from around the world gather to discuss ideas and issues of global concern, Bill Gates spent time speaking about a remarkable man, Sal Khan. Sal Khan, a recent hedge fund manager, has taken his business to a new level. He is now helping to educate the masses. “This guy is amazing, said Gates. “I’d say we’ve moved about 160 IQ points from the hedge fund category to the teaching-many-people-in-a-leveraged-way category. It was a good day his wife let him quit his job.”
Sal Khan was probably not surprised by the recent public attention. In 2009, his site and “academy” was awarded the Microsoft Tech Award for education.
Sal Khan has created over 1800 learning videos on subjects like calculus, chemistry, economics, finance, geometry, linear algebra, physics, venture capital, statistics and trigonometry.
Sal has an exceptional ability to take complicated concepts and teach people in ways that are easy to understand. He narrates the videos and uses a big black background to draw on as he speaks. Mr. Gates has used the videos to help his own children learn biology and algebra.
It is interesting to know a little about Sal and his background. Sal Khan was born in Louisiana. His father was from Bangladesh and his mother from Calcutta, India. He received a perfect score on the math portion of the SAT. He has three bachelor degrees, one in mathematics, one in computer science and one in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds an MBA from Harvard. In 2009, Khan Academy, and received the Microsoft Tech Award for education.
Sal Khan has made a huge contribution to the world by providing an education to anyone who may be wanting to learn. From all corners of the world, people can benefit from his videos.
