Khan Academy

6 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Chris Schroeder · said 14 times in 8 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sal Khan (4), Ben Horowitz (4), Marc Andreessen (2), Steph Smith (1), Olivia Moore (1), Chris Schroeder (1), Balaji Srinivasan (1)

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Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schroeder: Iranian youth widely use American social networks and edtech platforms
“When I was in Iran a month ago, all the young people wanted to show me on their smart devices, not only how they were all on our social networks, which allows them to see each other as well as to see other parts of the world, all of them had access to Coursera…”
Chris Schroeder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:57 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Khan: 30–60 mins weekly on Khan Academy accelerates learning by 40%–50%
“Students put in 30 to 60 minutes a week, so not like a huge amount. They're accelerating 40, 50%.”
Sal Khan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 32:07 Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
Jul 27, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Sal Khan: Khan Academy launching AI college essay tool within months
“In a couple of months we're going to be launching something, we're going to initially do it for college essays, which is a whole other, this is the first college admission cycle in the chat GPT era, so it's going to be very interesting.”
Sal Khan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 17:16 Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Insight
Khan: Generative AI accelerated education technology timeline by 20 years
“Generative AI kind of jumped us forward 20 years faster.”
Sal Khan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 11:23 Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Sal Khan: Khanmigo refuses to give direct answers to students
“If you ask Conmigo hey, tell me the answer, it will not tell you the answer, but say I'm your tutor, it'll act Socratic and say, well, what do you think is the next step?”
Sal Khan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 11:55 Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming
Jan 23, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: Khan Academy outperformed competitors despite receiving least capital
“The one that has worked the best is probably Khan Academy, which had the least amount of money go into it”
Ben Horowitz Jan 23, 2024 ▶ 1:31:48 Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
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