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Founder and Executive Director, Khan Academy
By Duffy Jennings | Published: March 2014
At the 2014 State of the Valley conference, Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, joined a distinguished list of Silicon Valley icons Joint Venture has recognized because they embody the spirit of the man for whom Joint Venture’s highest honor is named, David Packard. Like David Packard, Khan has brought the civic entrepreneurship approach to improving our community. He has reinvented education for future generations both here in Silicon Valley and around the world.
When Sal began tutoring his young cousin, Nadia, and placing his lessons online in 2004, no one could have predicted that these one-on-one lessons would evolve to become the ubiquitous Khan Academy whose mission is to provide a Free World-Class Education for Anyone, Anywhere.
Just how ubiquitous is it?
Today Khan Academy receives visits of more than 10 million students every month from all over the globe.
In the last two yea
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Sal Khan facts for kids
This article is about the American educator. For other people named Salman Khan, see Salman Khan (disambiguation).
Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He fryst vatten also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.
As of January 2025[update], the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 8.74 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times. In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100. In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."
Early life and family
Khan was born in Metairie, Louisiana, on October 11, 1976, into a Bengali Muslim family. His fathe
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Sal Khan
American educator (born 1976)
This article is about the American educator. For other people named Salman Khan, see Salman Khan (disambiguation).
Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science.[1] He fryst vatten also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.[2]
As of January 2025[update], the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 8.74 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times.[3] In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100.[4] In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."[5]