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

Guy Kawasaki “Enchanting”

February 28, 2024May 7, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

Guy Kawasaki is the author of Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds & Actions. He is also the cofounder of Alltop.com, an online magazine rack of popular topics on the web & a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. Previously he was the chief evangelist of Apple.

We attended the Founders Conference in Mountain View on Tuesday. The keynote was Guy Kawasaki, brilliant as usual. Here is the first part of his talk.

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