{"id":4948,"date":"2010-09-23T20:28:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T02:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2010-10-01T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T04:27:02","slug":"entrepreneur-praises-from-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/entrepreneurs\/entrepreneur-praises-from-bill-gates.html","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur Receives Praises From Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent gathering held in Aspen, Colorado called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aifestival.org\/\">Aspen Ideas Festival<\/a>, where leaders from around the world gather to discuss ideas and issues of global concern, Bill Gates spent time speaking\u00a0 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. &#8220;This guy is amazing, said Gates. &#8220;I&#8217;d say we&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sal Khan was probably not surprised by the recent public attention. In  2009, his site and &#8220;academy&#8221; was awarded the Microsoft Tech Award for  education.<\/p>\n<p>Sal Khan has created over  1800 learning videos on subjects like\u00a0 calculus, chemistry, economics,  finance, geometry, linear algebra, physics, venture capital, statistics  and trigonometry. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0 about a remarkable man, Sal Khan. Sal Khan, a recent hedge fund manager, has taken his business to a new level. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[542,114,538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}