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Sal Khan

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“Yeah, he's also very well known for his physique. He's kind of the guy that taught Bollywood that Indians don't all have to look like software engineers.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And actually, I was in India five years ago, and I met him. Yeah, so there's some YouTube videos of us getting co interviewed. He's a big star.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All of the above. I mean, it's one person can call it luck, one person might call it benevolent aliens working in your favor to prepare humanity for first contact. But yeah, there's something that I can't, I mean, there's a lot that I can't take credit for. I mean, and above and beyond luck, I guess it's luck where I was born where I was born. I had the teachers I had, had the... The friendship, supports that I had, and then, you know, fell into things at the right time. But every now and then you see a door crack open. You say, I think there's something interesting on that other side of the door and you've got to sprint through it. And so I try not to overthink when there are signs in my life that like that door is open. Don't make someone have to force you through the door. Run through that door”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I agree with him. I mean, you know, I, like Jimmy Wales, by virtue of this adventure I've been on, I get lenses into really interesting parts of the world, which for the most part have made me more optimistic about the world. You know, every now and then I get invited to various conferences where very powerful people are talking about the problems of society and how to fix them. And when you get into these circles, you realize most of these people are honestly just trying to help. You might not agree with everyone, et cetera, et cetera, but it's actually been very, it's made me more optimistic about the world, not less.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I remind myself one, I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be able to do what I am doing. And, you know, the way I think about it is I've done my philanthropy in reverse order. And, you know, I could have stayed in the hedge fund world. And, you know, maybe one day become a multimillionaire or larger. But then what would I have done with that Monday? I'm not someone who wants that much. I want to be able to have a backyard, be able to, you know, support the family, you know, go on a vacation once or twice a year. And anything above that, if I did become a billionaire, I frankly would have donated it to an effort like Khan Academy. So you might as well just cut out the middleman or, you know, just time shift it and work on it. And I do generally think that it has benefited the mission and the vision because once people hopefully are viewing it as an institution, they're rooting for it because they realize that it's not, it doesn't have an ulterior motive.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What if we could take that brand and do it in this tangential space? And Khan Academy can have equity and maybe it can help build an endowment for, you know, and I'm always open to ideas. But what I always remind myself, and look, I'm not someone who has transcended material desires. I try to transcend material desires, but I every now and then go to a friend who's done well with their IPO or something and they got the new Tesla. They're living in a, you know, they're living slightly upstream, the income gradient in our neighbor, you know, and they're a little higher up the hill.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, yeah, we do oftentimes sometimes I'll go to a potential philanthropist and they're like, well, I'd rather invest than donate or something like that. And, you know, people, I think there's some creative ideas that I would entertain. They're like, well, you know, Khan Academy's brand is so valuable.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, asking people for money is a very humbling thing to do. My hope was always, let me show people how great this is. I have to become a little bit more explicit saying that I have a need, and then hopefully people would show up.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Our annual operating budget now is in the high fifty millions, which every time I say it gives me a cortisol spike. But about 5 million of our funding comes from a few hundred thousand people donating on average $20,000, $30. So there's a lot of people donating because hopefully you're talking about.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By the end of this week, pretty much most of the country and the world had shut down. You know, we normally see about pre-COVID, it was about 20 million students were coming per month, and that increased to 30 million, and then they were also spending 50% more time on the site. And then our registrations went through the roof. Those went 10x of normal on a daily basis. And I think right now we're sitting at around 110 million registered users.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we first caught wind in February this past February that something interesting was happening. We got a letter from a teacher in South Korea telling us that he was heavily dependent on Khan Academy as they had their nationwide school closures. And that was the first time I was like, wow, a whole country's closing schools because of...”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So he said How about we partner to create the world's best test prep that happens to be free? And it made sense to me and over time the relationships evolved where they actually pay us resources to create free test prep. Which is, you know, that's the type of revenue I love because it helps sustain us, but it's free to the student.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Observing Khan Academy and what we really like about Khan Academy is y'all are about really learning the material. I had actually made some SAT videos for Navia and my cousins. I actually went through the SAT practice book and I did every problem in the book on video for my cousins so that it was a 400 something problems. And I was afraid that the college world was going to sue me because I didn't take their permission to screen capture their problems. But Dave is like, I watch that. And what I really liked about it is at no point did you say, oh, this is how you guess you always said, oh, this is a concept you need to learn to be ready for college. This is where you learn it. This is how you learn it. There was a little bit of test taking strategies. He's like, that's what test prep should be. It should be something that genuinely makes you better, genuinely makes you more prepared for college. And how you perform the SAT is just going to be a byproduct of that.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you know, I think all of these players, they're trying to do what they can in the context that they're doing it. But David Coleman reached out. And it was really, I think, David's brainchild when he took over the college board that the college board, the folks who administer the SAT and the AP exams, it was, the College is a non-for-profit that came into existence to try to level the playing field. A hundred years ago, the only kids who were getting into Ivy League schools were kids of legacy, kids who went to the right schools exactly. And the notion of the SAT is let's give a chance for the kid in Metterie, Louisiana to compete with the kids from Andover or Chote or Deerfield. But over time, as we know, this whole industry, this billion dollar industry came up. what looked like creating a perceived and maybe actual advantage for the upper middle class or fluent. And David said, look, we've been secretly...”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Education, even when it's done in this kind of distance way or asynchronous, you have to really trust your teacher. You have to trust that they're going to get me to some place that I know is going to be insightful and there's going to be an aha moment that you're willing to invest in it. And we've had moments where, you know, there's a video for me, a video for me, and then there's a video from someone else. And it just, even though they might be explaining that better than I could have, it could be dissonant for the student where they're feeling, wait, I really got connected at my teacher and I substitute showed up. So we've been trying to balance that.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, you know, we don't have a lot of folks making videos. I still make a lot of them. I pretty much make all of the math and science video. And then we have a few other folks who are doing some history videos and some language arts videos. And one of the reasons why we became a little sensitive of not just outsourcing it to 500 folks is we got a lot of feedback that”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I remember writing kind of these envisioning docs back in 2008, 2009. I said, okay, we want to create a world where anyone on the planet has access to all the core academic learning they need from pre-K through the core of college across subjects and grades. It was part of the initial vision that, yeah, one day we would try to figure out language arts, humanities, et cetera, et cetera, because they're important, early learning. And then we'll just keep running experiments to see how they go. And we're still on that journey.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you know, the interesting, there's a constant tension as an organization grows of how do you make sure you do what's right from a professionalization point of view, from a scaling, from a managerial point of view, but how do you make sure that you're not just doing the things that everyone else does that ends up creating these large bureaucratic organizations that aren't always the most innovative? And how do you make sure you don't lose whatever secret sauce you had that made you a success initially? And a lot of Khan Academy's I can say not so secret sauce, I believe was its eccentricity, its quirkiness, its informality, coupled with its depth and intuition and desire to show the wonder in the universe and the curiosity. And so, you know, the last ten years for me have just been, how do I balance that? Can I bring in other people who also compliment us, but we do not lose that entrepreneurial, that creativity.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Me turn into a real organization. At the same time, there were these two engineers. I mean, it's once again, it's really eerie how these people came out of the woodwork.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it was. I mean, I immediately call one of my closest friends, Shantanu Sinha. He was someone I first met actually in Louisiana. He beat me at a math competition in 10th grade. And then we were on the same team representing Louisiana at national academic games. So that's how I got to know him. He ended up becoming my roommate freshman year at MIT. So, you know, we're pretty much like brothers. And I said, hey, Shantanu, I need help. Like, I know this wasn't on your career path to help me kind of get this thing off the ground, but like, I need your help. And I think it'll be fun. And, you know, he took a couple of days to think about it. And he decided to take the plunge with me. And so he quit his McKinsey job and joined Khan Academy as a president and COO to essentially help.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Google had made this promise in 2008, which was a 10 year anniversary of Google, that it would donate $10 million to five projects that had the potential to change the world. And they determined that one of those projects has to be a project that has a chance to educate the world. And they on their own said, we've done a lot of research, and we think what you are doing has the best chance of helping to educate the world. I'm glad you've been listening in on my delusions. And by fall of 2010, both the Google and the Gates Foundation each gave about $2 million. Wow. So we had a $4 million initial funding for that first two years to hire up a team, internationalize, and start scaling Khan Academy.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They could do that. So I started talking to the Gates Foundation about that grant. And simultaneously, folks from Google had reached out.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They asked. Bill said, Well, what would you do with more resources? And, you know, I was like, this is the question I have to answer really well. And I said, look, you know, it's just me in a closet right now with more resources, we could translate this to the languages of the world. We could build out the software platform so more people can access it. We could build tools for teachers. You know, I said, I think we could, we're reaching hundreds of thousands now. I think we could reach a million folks by the end of this year and it could be 10 or 100 million by the end of the decade. They said, well, what do you need for that? And I said, look, if I could hire up about five, six engineers and educators and content folks, I think we'll be up and running. So, you know, fully loaded costs in Silicon Valley, that'd be a million, million and a half dollars a year. And so they said, yeah, we'll think about that. That seems reasonable. And then a few days later, they said, yeah, they feel.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“20% of your brain is trying to do what it needs to do, and then the other 80% of your brain's saying you're talking to Bill Gates. That's Bill Gates. He's three feet away. Don't mess this up, Sal. Don't mess this up. You're about to mess this up. Don't mess this up. And then when I was kind of done, he kind of nods. He's like, yeah, no, this makes a ton of sense. This is great. This is great. And I'm like, oh my God, and then I got overconfident. I remember I thought another idea. He's like, no, that doesn't make sense. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you're right.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, there's an irony to it that, you know, I'm obviously someone involved in technology. Khan County is based on technology. I'm presenting to the creator of PowerPoint. So yeah, I went through it. And at the end, he didn't give during the presentation a lot of feedback. So I just kind of kept going. And it's one of those moments where, you know,”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was a little bit awkward. There wasn't like an obvious, like, oh, you know, I love what you're doing. It was like, oh, so, you know, there was a little bit of a prompt. I think Larry might have said, oh, so tell Bill what you're up to. And then I just started into, I had my laminated slides that showed with me. I love it.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was completely blank. I said, yeah, maybe next Wednesday, you know, I've got to cut my nails, do some laundry. I'm happy to meet with Bill. Can make that work. So yeah, I flew up and we had that meeting.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The press sometimes writes these hyperbolic headlines, and I always felt insecure. I was like, am I his favorite teacher? Like, did he say that? Are they misrepresenting? Like, I felt a serious imposter syndrome. And then I got a call, my cell phone rings, right, when I'm a recorder video and I answer, I say, hello. And I hear, you know, this is Larry Cohen. I'm Bill Gates, Chief of Staff. You might have heard that Bill's a fan. And I was like, yeah, I heard that. And if you're free over the next couple of weeks, we'd love to fly you up to Seattle and learn more about what you're doing, maybe ways we could work together. And I was looking at my calendar for the month.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm going to call Bill up. I'm like, if you think you can call Bill up and do that, and so he calls me like two days later, he's like, Bill took my call. I just interviewed Bill Gates about you. And it's like this really surreal thing because this person that's obviously like a lifetime hero, like, you know, you grow up in computer science reading about Bill Gates. And then the fortune article came out. And I still had not met Bill yet or even had any contact with them. And the article said something like the title was Bill Gates' favorite teacher.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It wasn't obvious. And so simultaneously, a reporter from Fortune had reached out actually before this happened saying, oh, you know, there's this thing you're doing that's really interesting. We'd like to do a story about it. And so I was already talking to the reporter and that reporter calls and he's like, did you know that Bill Gates uses Khan Academy? I was like, I had no idea. And then the reporter, Robert Kaplan with Fortune, he says.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had no idea at all. I mean, it definitely gelled with some of the delusions that I've had over time, but I had no clue. And I remember that night I went home. I immediately showed my wife the video when she got home from her fellowship. And we both kind of stared at each other a little bit. And I was just like, what do I do now? Do I call him? How do I contact? I'm sure he's not listed.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I start getting text messages from Anne, which you can imagine I now take very seriously. And there were four or five of them, and we were kind of cryptic as text messages often are. And they said, this is Anne writing. I'm at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Maine Pavilion, Walter Isaacson interviewing Bill Gates, Gates last five minutes talking about Khan Academy. And once guys just kind of stared, I was like, What is she talking about? And I start doing a web search for Aspen, Gates, Khan Academy. After about 10 minutes, I actually found the delayed recording of the interview. And Walter Isaacson asks Bill Gates, what are you excited about right now? Didn't even say that. And he says, Well, there's this”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're not going to have to dip into savings. It gave I can do this for a few more months, for a year at least, or maybe even a little longer.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I think I might have cried, you know, like it was that type of, because you, you know, all that stress that builds up over the months, all of a sudden it just gets released. And it's not that hundred thousand was all of a sudden going to like change everything forever, but it's like, okay, I can now pay my bills.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, no, I mean, I had been on CNN and I didn't realize there was actually a buzz about Khan Academy in Silicon Valley at the time that I didn't know about. I wasn't in the know. I wasn't even in the right circles to be experiencing the buzz. And so anyways, you know, she offered to pay the bill and I said, oh, if you insist. And 10 minutes later, I'm driving into my driveway and I get a text message from Anne and it says. You really need to be supporting yourself. I've just wired you $100,000. That was just, you know, it's like one of those moments where you just like stare at the phone and you sit in your driveway for like the next half an hour. Like, you know, holy crap.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I showed her, she was already familiar with the content I was making. I showed her the exercise, the software platform I was making. I said, look, videos are nice and I want to keep making videos. I really enjoy that. I want to translate it into the languages of the world. But the real learning happens when students are able to work on exercises, get immediate feedback. Ideally, teachers and parents can get dashboards to understand where their kids are and how to do more interventions. I've by this point been rejected by so many major foundations, probably about 20 of them. But in preparation for all of them, I had a binder of testimonials from around the world. I mean, it was literally several hundreds of pages thick. And these letters, so I showed it to her. I showed her how the usage was growing exponentially. And I was like, you know, I think this could eventually reach all of humanity. And she's like, well, you've made a lot of progress. I only have one question. How are you supporting yourself?”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She asks me over lunch. So, what's your goal here? And I told her when I filled out the paperwork with the IRS to become a nonprofit, that little part of the form was like mission colon, and they give you a line and a half, I filled out a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. And she looked at me. She's like, well, that's ambitious. How do you see yourself doing that? And I told her, you know, to be very clear, that's a mission. I don't think I'm just going to be able to check it off this weekend and then move on to healthcare or something.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I didn't realize that you weren't getting this kind of donations. I see that you're based in Mountain View. You know, I've been using your stuff with my daughters. I've been using it even myself to understand the financial crisis and accounting and finance. If you have time, I would love to grab lunch with you. I was like, yeah, absolutely. And so a week later, maybe a few days later, we were in downtown Palo Alto at an Indian buffet restaurant.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, just like I got an email notification from PayPal that a donation has come in. I was like, oh, is this going to be a 50? I was like, oh, it's a 10,000. And then I immediately did a Google search. I was like, oh, wow. Andor, she's like a real philanthropist. And I immediately emailed her and I said, thank you so much for this incredibly generous donation. This is the largest donation that Khan Academy has ever received. I tried to project like I'm a real institution. And if we were a physical school, you would now have a building named after. Anne immediately emails back and says, well.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have this theory that benevolent aliens are helping me so that Khan Academy can help prepare humanity for first contact. And the Andor coming into my life and then what happened shortly afterwards was May of 2010. And I was getting these donations off of PayPal and people donating $10, $20 every now and then a $50 donation would come in. That was pretty exciting. And then I saw a $10,000 donation come in. I was like, what?”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think there's, you know, we talked a lot about childhood and not having a lot of resources growing up. I think, and I frankly still have a fear of being one catastrophe away from financial hardship. And in 2009, I was like, I made the catastrophe happen. It wasn't like a hurricane or something that's ruined our finances. It's not a fire. It's like I quit a good job. And the type of job that I had is not easy to get. These are highly sought after jobs. If I really had to, I could probably go get a job. But would I be able to get as good of a job as what I had? That actually probably was unlikely. And I would try to channel whatever nervous energy or anxiety I had into the work. I was like, let me make more videos. Let me make more content. Let me write more code and hope that eventually someone will notice.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was getting anxious. I was waking up in the middle of the night in cold sweats. I was, you know, I would look at my bank account over and over again and look at our expenses. I would run financial models for my family. And my wife would say, oh, I was like, oh, nothing. In hindsight, I was like,”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The first three months, your euphoric, you're super excited about your new lifestyle is this nonprofit do-gooder and all of that. I would say by month seven or eight, I couldn't sleep. I mean, I literally couldn't sleep. Exactly.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that no one has funded this nonprofit thing that no one has funded and I'm living off a savings. Would you like to see your grandson child that I really can't support? We'd go to gatherings and I remember at one party and they kind of asked what I do for a living. And I said, well, you know, I used to do this. But, you know, now I do this thing where I make math videos and I write the software as a nonprofit. And they're asking all these questions. How is it funded? What's the model? I was like, yeah, I'm still working on that, still figuring it out. And I remember when they were walking away, I mean, they literally said this, like, well, you know, he's lucky that his wife is a physician. And it's like this, it's like a punch to the gut of your like fragile male ego. It's like, no, I can support my family too. You wait. You wait.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, when I told her I'd quit my job, I store her first word was what literally in that tone because, you know, as we talked about, I had now fallen into a really lucrative career. And then to give that up and to do that for something that was like not something that she could tell her friends at the next Indian party. Not only was her monetary aspect to it, there was probably a shame aspect to this as well was hard.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kind of, you know, those early funders who seemed promising, you know, by conversation four or five, I started getting, well, this is really exciting, but it doesn't really fit in our portfolio. Our budgets are already allocated. And so you go several months into it. I did have this little donate button on my website. There were people starting to donate. It was amounting to a few hundred dollars every month if it was anyone listening. Thank you for that. But we were digging into our savings about five or six thousand dollars a month. So it was incredibly stressful. And, you know, my male ego was trying to shelter my family from it. So I was putting on a strong face to my friends and family. And, you know, you can imagine my mother who...”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That down payment we were saving, we said, okay, maybe we can dig into that for a little bit for a year. I also say that a couple of philanthropists had reached out and said we're interested in what you're doing. And so, you know, I was like, oh, surely one of these people will fund it.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a process, you know, and you know, look, every marriage, there's, I would call it moods or weather to the marriage. And, you know, if I caught her at a bad moment, it'd be like, I just get a weird look. But if I caught her at a good moment, she'd be like, no, you don't look like you've been showing me these letters you've been getting. They are incredible. It does seem like you're on to something, but then let's look at our finances and we would look at it, you know, our rent to rent a four bedroom house out here at the time. It seemed like a lot. It was $4,000 a month. She was making probably $40,000 a year as a fellow. My mother in law was living with us. We had a child. We were hoping to have more children. Our expenses were only going higher. So she saw that I was having trouble focusing on anything else.”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I'm like, wow, like people are paying attention. So that was like my first signs from the universe that maybe this is what I should be doing”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was not a millionaire And then by fall of 2009, there were several hundred thousand folks who were using the stuff I was making on a regular basis. I got a call from the local tech museum. They had this annual award ceremony, which is a pretty high-profile thing called the Tech Awards. And they called and said, you've been nominated one of three entities nominated to win Media houses contacting me saying, We are watching your explanations before reporting on the financial crisis. And we think they're the best explanations out there. And then I remember Rick Sanchez on CNN reached out to me and says, I want you to come onto my show for 20 minutes and explain the financial crisis to America”
2020-09-21 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Khan Academy: Sal Khan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT