21 Facts About Sal Khan

Sal Khan is the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.

In 2012, Sal Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100.

Sal Khan was born in Metairie, Louisiana, on October 11,1976, into a Bengali Muslim family.

Sal Khan's grandfather Abdul Wahab Sal Khan was a prominent Bengali politician who served as Pakistan's second official Speaker of the National Assembly.

Sal Khan took upper-level mathematics courses at the University of New Orleans while he was in high school and graduated as valedictorian in 1994.

Sal Khan attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1998 with Bachelor's and Master of Science degrees in the electrical engineering and computer science program, and another bachelor's degree in mathematics.

Sal Khan holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

The popularity of his educational videos on the video-sharing website prompted Sal Khan to quit his job as a financial analyst in late 2009.

Sal Khan moved his focus to developing his YouTube channel, Khan Academy, full-time with the aid of close friend Josh Gefner.

Sal Khan subsequently received sponsorship from Ann Doerr, the wife of John Doerr.

Sal Khan's videos received worldwide interest from both students and non-students, with more than 458 million views in the first number of years.

In 2023, Sal Khan Academy has more than 155 million registered users, with students spending billions of hours of learning on the platform.

Sal Khan published a book about Sal Khan Academy and education goals titled The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined.

In 2012, Sal Khan received the American Academy of Achievement's Gold Medal.

In 2014, Sal Khan received the 19th Annual Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.

In 2015, Sal Khan announced that Sal Khan Academy was partnering with the College Board to create free practice resources for the SAT test.

Sal Khan believes that supplementing traditional classroom education with the technology being developed by his Academy can improve the effectiveness of teachers by freeing them from traditional lectures and giving them more time for instruction specific to individual students' needs.

In early 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sal Khan launched Schoolhouse, a free non-profit initiative to provide small-group tutoring for students worldwide through Zoom meetings.

In 2016, Sal Khan received the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, the Padma Shri, from the President of India.

On May 27,2021, Sal Khan received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University.

In 2012 Sal Khan was named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world.