lizandlearn

  This podcast is about Sal Khan's journey to creating Khan Academy. Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization that creates videos ranging from all levels of math to complex organic chemistry and physics.  From listening to the podcast, it sounds like Sal Khan had a tough childhood. His father left the picture when he was 2 years old and he ended up living with his mother's extended family. However, these childhood struggles did not stop him from pursuing higher education. Sal Khan attended and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Upon graduating from MIT, he worked as a hedge fund analyst and would tutor one of his younger cousins struggling in math on the side. Although they were far from each other, technology made their tutoring session possible. Through his tutoring sessions, his cousin became one of the top performers in the class for this subject. From here other family members heard about this and eventually, he started posti