With over 2,700 tutorial videos on the Khan Academy Web site, Salam Khan has created one of the world’s largest free educational online library. Khan, who has four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, posted math videos on YouTube for his young cousins to learn from. After word spread of his videos, Khan created the Khan Academy, which now has videos covering algebra all the way to college-level calculus and chemistry.
Khan, who quit his job as a hedge fund manager, is now dedicating his time to the Khan Academy. However, the popularity of Khan’s videos has led to millions of dollars in donations including $1.5 million from Bill Gates’ foundation, which Khan uses to pay himself a salary.
According to Tech Crunch, Khan’s videos have been viewed over 82 million times on YouTube. Khan’s plans for the site include expanding the subject areas, adding more faculty members, and translating the videos to widely used languages.
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