![]() ![]() ![]() “We still haven’t delivered on it,” he added. That sole mission of the company, unchanged since he founded it in 2008, is plastered on the Khan Academy website as well as the walls of his Mountain View headquarters.Īs a side note, Khan said he wrote that mission statement in about 20 minutes as he hurried to complete an Internal Revenue Service tax form to establish the nonprofit. The mission - a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. He probably could have been rich off the idea, but when he came up with the vision for Khan Academy, he wanted it to be free. While Khan isn’t poor, he falls well short for any list featuring big-money moguls in tech. In Silicon Valley, nerds like Khan - with companies whose users number in the many millions - are often billionaires. The winner of the award will receive a $25,000 grant that can be applied to the cause of his or her choice. “I’m a nerd,” said Khan, who is a nominee for the 2018 Visionary of the Year award sponsored by The Chronicle. “The other thing is you can get hypothermia (and die) in 80-degree water.” “That’s still my favorite thing to share in conversations,” said the founder of Khan Academy, a free, online learning platform serving 15 million people a month. ![]()
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