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Sal Khan
Salman Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.
As of January 2025[update], the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 8.74 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times. In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100. In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."
Khan was born in Metairie, Louisiana, on October 11, 1976, into a Bengali Muslim family. His father Fakhrul Amin Khan (d. 1990) was a physician, originally hailing from the village of Rahmatpur in Babuganj Upazila, Bangladesh while his mother Masuda Khan is from Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. Khan says that he grew up in a state of financial difficulty, recalling that his mother made $16,000 in 1993—he knew this because he had to do her taxes to get financial aid. They are descendants of Rahmat Khan, a 16th-century chieftain of Pathan origin, who was killed in battle with Kandarpanarayan Rai, the erstwhile Raja of Chandradwip. Khan's grandfather Abdul Wahab Khan was a prominent Bengali politician who served as Pakistan's third official Speaker of the National Assembly.
Khan attended Grace King High School, where, as he recalls, "a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities." He was a cartoonist for the high school's newspaper. Khan took upper-level mathematics courses at the University of New Orleans while he was in high school and graduated as valedictorian in 1994.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating in 1998 with Bachelor's and Master of Engineering degrees in the electrical engineering and computer science program, and another bachelor's degree in mathematics. In his final year, Khan was the president of the "Senior Gift Committee", a philanthropy program of the graduating class.
Khan also holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
In 2002, Khan was a summertime intern at PARC. From 2003 to late 2009, he worked as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management.
In 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in mathematics over the internet using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought his tutoring, he moved his tutorials to YouTube, where he created an account on November 16, 2006.
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Sal Khan
Salman Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.
As of January 2025[update], the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 8.74 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times. In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100. In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."
Khan was born in Metairie, Louisiana, on October 11, 1976, into a Bengali Muslim family. His father Fakhrul Amin Khan (d. 1990) was a physician, originally hailing from the village of Rahmatpur in Babuganj Upazila, Bangladesh while his mother Masuda Khan is from Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. Khan says that he grew up in a state of financial difficulty, recalling that his mother made $16,000 in 1993—he knew this because he had to do her taxes to get financial aid. They are descendants of Rahmat Khan, a 16th-century chieftain of Pathan origin, who was killed in battle with Kandarpanarayan Rai, the erstwhile Raja of Chandradwip. Khan's grandfather Abdul Wahab Khan was a prominent Bengali politician who served as Pakistan's third official Speaker of the National Assembly.
Khan attended Grace King High School, where, as he recalls, "a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities." He was a cartoonist for the high school's newspaper. Khan took upper-level mathematics courses at the University of New Orleans while he was in high school and graduated as valedictorian in 1994.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating in 1998 with Bachelor's and Master of Engineering degrees in the electrical engineering and computer science program, and another bachelor's degree in mathematics. In his final year, Khan was the president of the "Senior Gift Committee", a philanthropy program of the graduating class.
Khan also holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
In 2002, Khan was a summertime intern at PARC. From 2003 to late 2009, he worked as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management.
In 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in mathematics over the internet using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought his tutoring, he moved his tutorials to YouTube, where he created an account on November 16, 2006.