Conversation with Salman Khan, Khan Academy Pt II #TIECon

Salman Khan is the founder & faculty of the Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world class education to anyone, anywhere. It now consists of self paced software & with over 1m unique students per month, the most used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30m lessons delivered to date). All 2000+ video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics, chemistry & biology have been made by Salman. Prior to Khan Academy, Salman was a senior analyst at a hedge fund & had also worked in technology & venture capital. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MEng & BS in electrical engineering & computer science from MIT & BS in mathematics from MIT. You can find Sal on Twitter @khanacademy http://twitter.com/khanacademy Thanks to Alexander Blu for music 'Concert' http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/149 For further info check out http://www.ezebis.com

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[ykhanian]

Love this guy! Extremely bright guy! :-)

[dantheman87able]

Moral of his story...good intentions last!

[maxgunn555]

see not all businesses need venture capital finance. you can just start off small and grow naturally without 'forcing' it with money.

[maxgunn555]

one man teaches the world. damn. currently learning finance off him. for fun.