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Khan: 15 to 60 minutes weekly on Khan Academy prevented COVID learning loss
“What we saw in twenty-twenty-one is that the students who put in an average of 15 minutes on Khan Academy a week in a school setting, they actually saw no COVID learning loss, And that students who put in 30 to 60 minutes, they accelerated almost 40% faster th…”
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…”
Google and the Gates Foundation each granted Khan Academy $2 million in 2010
“And by fall of 2010, both the Google and the Gates Foundation each gave about two million dollars. So we had a four million dollar initial funding for that first two years to hire up a team, internationalize, and start scaling Khan Academy.”
Khan: Khan Academy costs $60M to $70M annually to operate
“It costs On the order of 60, seventy million a year to run Khan Academy, both to, you know, just our server costs are six, seven million dollars a year, and then obviously all of the engineers, et cetera”
Philanthropist Ann Doerr wired Sal Khan $100,000 to cover his living expenses
“I'm driving into my driveway, and I get a text message from Ann, and it says, you really need to be supporting yourself. I've just wired you a 100,000 dollars.”
The College Board pays Khan Academy to create free SAT prep
“Over time, the relationship has evolved where they actually pay us resources to create free test prep which is, you know, that's the type of revenue I love because it's, it helps sustain us, but it's free to the student.”
Khan Academy reached hundreds of thousands of regular users by 2009
“And by 2007, 2008, it was in the tens of thousands of people. And by 2009, it was in the hundreds of thousands of people were using it on our, on a regular basis.”
Khan: Khan Academy daily usage surged from 30M to 90M minutes in March 2020
“Our traffic went from about thirty million learning minutes per day to about ninety million learning minutes per day, pretty much within that week.”
Khan Academy had hundreds of thousands of regular users by 2009
“By fall of 2009, there were several 100,000 folks who were using The stuff I was making on a regular basis.”
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.”
Google and the Gates Foundation granted $4M to Khan Academy in 2010
“And by fall of 2010, both the Google and the Gates Foundation each gave about two million dollars. So we had a four million dollar initial funding for that first two years to hire up a team, internationalize, and start scaling Khan Academy.”