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August 21, 2012

Why Would Some of the Brightest Minds at Facebook and Google Leave to Work For This Not-for-Profit?

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by Simi Singh Juneja, Huffington Post

In 2004, Salman Khan began tutoring his seventh grader cousin in math over the internet. The former hedge fund manager, MIT graduate, and Harvard MBA, then began recording lessons and uploading them onto the newly created YouTube from his Palo Alto closet. Along with dancing babies and cute kittens, Khan’s tutorials gained a substantial following and grew into the highly regarded not-for-profit Khan Academy “with the goal of providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.” Khan has been called Bill Gates’ favorite teacher and was voted one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for 2012.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simi-singh-juneja/post_3717_b_1721862.html

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