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Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)

2025-12-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·1h 18m ·by Guy Raz / NPR
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Khan Academy offers hundreds of free tutorials in fifty languages, and has 170 million monthly global users.  It all began in 2009 when Sal Khan walked away from a high-paying job to start a business that had no way of making money.  His idea to launch a non-profit teaching platform was sp