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Salman Khan, Khan Academy #TIECon

February 28, 2024June 3, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

Salman Khan is the founder & faculty of the Khan Academy a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world class education to anyone, anywhere. It now consists of self paced software & with over 1m unique students per month, the most used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30m lessons delivered to date). All 2000+ video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics, chemistry & biology have been made by Salman. Prior to Khan Academy, Salman was a senior analyst at a hedge fund & had also worked in technology & venture capital. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MEng & BS in electrical engineering & computer science from MIT & BS in mathematics from MIT. You can find Sal on Twitter @khanacademy

Salman Khan Reinventing Education #TIECon

February 28, 2024May 31, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

Salman Khan gave a great talk @2011 TIE Conference, he is really inspirational & a great & entertaining speaker. I thoroughly enjoyed his talk & was inspired by his story & enthusiasm to reinvent education through his videos & software. Salman is the founder & faculty of the Khan Academy a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world class education to anyone, anywhere. It now consists of self paced software & with over 1m unique students per month, the most used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30m lessons delivered to date). All 2000+ video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics, chemistry & biology have been made by Salman. Prior to Khan Academy, Salman was a senior analyst at a hedge fund & had also worked in technology & venture capital. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MEng & BS in electrical engineering & computer science from MIT & BS in mathematics from MIT. You can find Sal on Twitter @khanacademy

Mark Suster, GRP Partners: Venture Typology

February 28, 2024October 20, 2010 by Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Mark Suster, Partner at GRP Partners Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. You can find Mark @ his blog Both Sides of the Table & on Twitter @msuster

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