Sal Khan
21 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 21, 2020 by Sal Khan · said 11 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
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Sep 21, 2020 positive
One-on-one gap-filling tutoring dramatically accelerates student math comprehension
“There's actually a lot of research to back this up, that if you do have one-on-one tutoring and that tutor is able to identify what your gaps are and fill in those gaps, especially in subjects like mathematics, that most kids can actually, probably all kids co…”
Sep 21, 2020 positive
Sep 21, 2020 negative
Khan initially burned $5K monthly in savings while raising hundreds in donations
“I did have this little donate button on, on my website, and there were people starting to donate. It was amounting to a few hundred dollars every month. If it was anyone listening, you'll thank you for that, but it But we were digging into our savings about fi…”
Sep 21, 2020
Sep 21, 2020
Sep 21, 2020
Sep 21, 2020 neutral
Sep 21, 2020
Khan recorded 400 SAT video solutions without College Board permission
“I had actually made some SAT videos for Navia and my cousins. I actually went through the SAT practice book, and I did every problem in the book on video for my cousins, so that it was a 400 something problems, and I was afraid that the college board was going…”
Sep 21, 2020
Sep 21, 2020 positive
Only non-profits stay true to a social bottom line long-term
“While I was at a hedge fund, I saw how much capital structure and incentives can really drive what an organization does. And the only organizations that really do stay true to some social bottom line over long periods of time are nonprofits.”
Sep 21, 2020 positive
Foundational math and science lessons are evergreen universal content
“And I started to realize, you know, this type of thing, especially math, and I was doing math and I started doing some physics and chemistry and biology as well. It's pretty evergreen content. If once you have a good explanation of adding fractions with unlike…”
Sep 21, 2020
Sal Khan personally produces almost all Khan Academy math and science videos
“Now, you know, we don't have a lot of folks making videos. I still make A lot of them. I pretty much make all of the math and science video. And then we have a few other folks who are doing some history videos and some language arts videos.”
Jul 27, 2023 negative
Khan would consider a for-profit spin-out if foundation funding dried up
“The only reason That I could ever see trying to do some type of spin out or a wholly owned sub that's, is for some reason, if we're not getting the risk capital from the foundations, or we can't create a flywheel of sustainability, then maybe certain pieces of…”
Jul 27, 2023 bullish
Khan: Immersive AI 'holodeck' simulations are 3 to 5 years away
“You know, there's a world now where you can talk to historical characters, and we're probably three to five years away where you could share a room with Benjamin Franklin or Julius Caesar or Cleopatra and immerse yourself. It'll, it'll be literally the holodec…”
Jul 27, 2023 bullish
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Khan: Khanmigo AI evaluates math reasoning by comparing hidden expected steps
“One of the things we've done to make it more robust on the math side is when a student presents their math to the AI saying, hey, I think this is the next step, the AI behind the scenes comes up with what it thinks are reasonable responses from the student. It…”
Dec 8, 2025
Dec 8, 2025
Dec 8, 2025 positive
Dec 8, 2025 negative