Sal Khan

Sal Khan
Khan speaking at a TED conference in 2011
Born
Salman Amin Khan

(1976-10-11) October 11, 1976 (age 48)
Education
Occupations
  • Educator
  • entrepreneur
Title
Board member ofAspen Institute
Spouse
Umaima Marvi
(m. 2004)
Children3
RelativesAbdul Wahab Khan (grandfather)

Salman "Sal" Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science.[1] He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.[2]

As of December 2023, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 8.17 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times.[3] In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100.[4] In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."[5]

  1. ^ Number of videos, Khan Academy.
  2. ^ Westervelt, Eric (June 30, 2016). "From YouTube Pioneer Sal Khan, A School with Real Classrooms". NPR.org. NPR.
  3. ^ "Khan Academy". YouTube. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
  4. ^ Gates, Bill (April 18, 2012). "Time 100 – Salman Khan". Time. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
  5. ^ Noer, Michael (November 2, 2012). "One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education". Forbes.