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  • - Hello, welcome to our daily homeroom live stream.

  • For those of you all this is your first time coming,

  • this is something that we started doing

  • when we started seeing school closures around the world.

  • Khan Academy, we are not for profit

  • with a mission of providing a free world class education

  • for anyone anywhere.

  • Obviously a big part of that is we've been creating

  • learning materials, software, videos,

  • all free, all not commercial.

  • And as soon as we saw the school closures happening,

  • we said we have to make this as usable as possible

  • for teachers, parents, and students

  • so that everyone can keep learning.

  • So that's when we started publishing schedules,

  • putting out learning plans, parent and teacher webinars,

  • and we also thought, in a time of social distancing,

  • wouldn't it be nice if there was a place

  • where we could connect in a, I guess you could say,

  • synchronous way, where we could have conversations,

  • answer each other's questions, bring on interesting guests.

  • And that's what this live stream is for.

  • And now before we get in to the meat of the live stream,

  • and the meat of today's live stream

  • will be around Giving Tuesday.

  • There's actually a lot of things going on.

  • It's National Teacher Appreciation Week.

  • We'll talk a little bit about that.

  • But it's also Giving Tuesday.

  • But in line with Giving Tuesday,

  • I do wanna remind everyone, again,

  • we are not for profit.

  • And the only way we're able to do our work,

  • for it to be free, for it to be non commercial.

  • A lot of people come to Khan Academy

  • and they think there's a catch.

  • Clearly there's a lot of resources being put into it.

  • Are they going to try to sell me something at some point?

  • The reason why we don't, and we never intend to

  • is because we're supported with philanthropic donations

  • from folks like yourself,

  • and we'll talk a lot about that over the course

  • of today's conversation.

  • But I do wanna give special thanks

  • to several corporations that have stepped up

  • in recent weeks when they found out

  • that we were already running at a deficit

  • before the COVID crisis, and now in the crisis

  • with our traffic being two to three X

  • of what it typically is, and we're trying to accelerate

  • all of these programs to figure out better ways

  • to support parents, teachers, and students.

  • Bank of America, Google.org, AT&T,

  • Novartis, and fastly all stepped up,

  • literally in a matter of days,

  • to make sure that we have less of a gap.

  • But we still need more help.

  • I wanna make it very clear.

  • Khan Academy is much more than just me.

  • There's 200 full-time teachers, researchers,

  • engineers, designers, managers,

  • who are bringing Khan Academy to you

  • and because of that we're able to serve,

  • we have over 100 million registered users.

  • There's 10s of millions of learners who come

  • on a monthly basis.

  • And that's only possible with financial support donations.

  • So given that today is Giving Tuesday,

  • that's going to be the focus of this,

  • but this will be a two-way exchange.

  • I am going to try to convince you,

  • if you're in a position.

  • I don't wanna guilt you if you're not in a position

  • to do so, but every dollar matters.

  • But if you're in a position to do so,

  • please think about donating.

  • And in return, the main thing in return,

  • all of us at Khan Academy are going to be able

  • to do our work and hopefully serve you and many millions

  • of students around the world.

  • But I'm also happy to answer any questions

  • that you might have about anything.

  • So this is a true ask me anything.

  • And so whether you're watching on Facebook

  • or on YouTube, put your questions in the message boards.

  • Myself and some team members, we're gonna be looking at that

  • and as long as it's decent and nothing is out of bounds.

  • I'm happy to answer any question.

  • So while we're waiting for questions to come in,

  • I'm just going to, we have some goals with our team.

  • We're hoping to get 20,000 donations.

  • We care about the number of people donating

  • because that shows that there's other people

  • in this boat with us.

  • There's other people around the world who care

  • about this mission of free world class education

  • for anyone anywhere.

  • Even if they're donating three dollars.

  • That makes a difference, and it's a huge show of support

  • for the work that we're doing.

  • Our goal is to raise $50,000 on YouTube in the month of May,

  • and $25,000 on Facebook this week.

  • If you look, I believe it's on my left,

  • I think I'm pointing in the right place,

  • you will see donate buttons, either on Facebook

  • or YouTube where you'll have an opportunity to donate.

  • Once again, if you're in a position to do so,

  • please think about doing that.

  • And I will read some quick testimonials

  • just to give a sense of, a flavor of how people

  • are using Khan Academy right now.

  • This is the type of thing that gives us energy

  • and I hope all of you all, if you view yourself

  • as part of the Khan Academy community, which I hope you do,

  • especially if you're a supporter,

  • that you take satisfaction in things like this.

  • This is a thing we got recently.

  • This here is a quote from a physician, actually.

  • I'm a resident physician in New York.

  • We've been working long, hard days with COVID patients.

  • I'm writing to say thank you.

  • I used your early materials to get through

  • my undergraduate and medical education.

  • My two and a half year old has been home

  • due to school closures and I haven't had a chance

  • to see her much in the last few weeks.

  • I came home today and she said,

  • let's sing the Khan Academy song

  • in regards to a song that has helped her learn to count.

  • Your educational programs carried me through my education

  • and are now teaching my young daughter, thank you.

  • That's John, and so first of all,

  • John, if you're listening or maybe you'll watch

  • the recording of this later, thank you so much for that.

  • One, the work you're doing.

  • Medical workers are genuinely on the front line of this war,

  • whatever you wanna call it, against COVID,

  • so thank you for doing that work.

  • And it makes us incredibly happy

  • and incredibly proud that not only were we able

  • to be part of your education.

  • So in our way by us helping you many years ago,

  • maybe you're going to be able to help

  • that many more people with COVID.

  • But also in this time of need,

  • and I'm sure your family needs support

  • and your family's going through a lot of stress,

  • it's our honor to be able to support your daughter

  • through her learning.

  • And for those of you who don't know,

  • Khan Academy Kids, I had Caroline over,

  • who's the founder of Khan Academy Kids

  • last Friday on the live stream.

  • I can't speak highly enough how cool it is.

  • I have a five and a half year old.

  • They just added first grade content.

  • They also just added teacher tools,

  • so teachers can make assignments and see

  • what students have completed.

  • And it starts as early as ages two.

  • It goes up to ages seven.

  • And I really think that is, it's a math, reading,

  • writing, social emotional urging.

  • It even has stuff on logic.

  • It covers all of the standards that can be covered

  • in that format.

  • I encourage parents or anyone in your family

  • who might have an early learner

  • to check that out.

  • And that's the type of work that we're able to do

  • with this support.

  • This all to cost resources,

  • and whether it's the core Khan Academy

  • that many of you all are familiar with

  • or Khan Academy Kids, it's your donations

  • that allow us to build that, support that,

  • support 10s of millions of users every month.

  • And to continue to improve on that.

  • So let's see.

  • We have questions here.

  • One from Instagram, Sarah Hellisleesleepy, I think.

  • What motivated you to build Khan Academy?

  • So I've told this story a little bit,

  • but I'll tell it again in a fast form.

  • I was tutoring cousins back in 2004.

  • My day job, I was an analyst at an investment firm.

  • And I just saw that maybe there was some tools

  • that I could help build that will help family.

  • So that's where I started writing the exercise platform.

  • A very early version of it.

  • For my cousins to get practice, feedback.

  • For me as their teacher or their tutor

  • to keep track of what they were doing.

  • And then a few years later a friend suggested,

  • hey why don't you make video lessons

  • to supplement this software thing you're making.

  • And I initially thought it was a horrible idea.

  • And I was, cats playing piano.

  • YouTube, it's not for serious math.

  • But I got over the idea.

  • It wasn't my idea, and I gave it a shot.

  • And long story short, I made it for my family,

  • but it soon became clear that people

  • who are not my family were watching.

  • And by 2008, I said this could be a real thing,

  • and that's where I incorporated Khan Academy

  • as a not for profit.

  • And for those of you who don't know

  • what a not for profit is, it means no one owns Khan Academy.

  • It is a public charity.

  • I do not own Khan Academy.

  • Or another way to think about it, you own

  • as much of Khan Academy as I do.

  • I do get a salary from Khan Academy.

  • All of our team members get salaries from Khan Academy.

  • But we are employees of this organization.

  • It's governed by a board,

  • and that board, it's in the for profit organization,

  • the board is, how do we maximize shareholder value?

  • In a not for profit board, the board says,

  • how do we maximize impact.

  • Especially impact aligned with our mission,

  • which is a free world class education

  • for anyone anywhere.

  • And by 2009, I was hoping at first to set up

  • as a not for profit, maybe some friends would volunteer

  • to help me out.

  • But by 2009, I had trouble focusing on my day job.

  • My first child was just born.

  • My wife was a medical resident, so we're making

  • a little bit of money, but I decided to quit my job

  • and we lived off of savings.

  • We were digging in to our savings, about $5,000 a month.

  • Just under the belief that this needed to exist

  • in the world.

  • Back then there was about 100,000 people using Khan Academy

  • on a monthly basis.

  • And I used to say, who knows?

  • Maybe one day it'll be a million, 10 million, 100 million.

  • And at the time those seemed like delusional ideas,

  • but those are now true.

  • And I think of the opportunity and I said,

  • maybe one day billions could learn from this.

  • And imagine if future generations,

  • they don't view education as something that only

  • the affluent have or only certain people have.

  • But they say as long as I have at least

  • a low-cost smartphone, I can have access

  • to the world's best material.

  • I have practice, I have feedback,

  • and I can learn everything from early learning and math,

  • reading, writing, all the way through the core

  • of elementary, middle, high school, college.

  • Not just in math, not just in ELA,

  • but the social sciences, the sciences,

  • and eventually plug in to the world.

  • Imagine if we could create a world like that.

  • And so that was the hope of Khan Academy.

  • That's why it was a not for profit.

  • And that's why, I hope, that you're also excited

  • about that type of a vision of what we can do

  • for the world together.

  • I hope one day all of you are able to tell your children

  • or your grandchildren, yeah there was a time

  • where free world class education wasn't a thing.

  • What zip code you were born in

  • or how much your family made, that was the biggest

  • predictor of what you're going to do in your life,

  • which unfortunately, it is the case right now.

  • But we think we can change that,

  • and empower everyone.

  • And that will not only level the playing field,

  • but think about how many Marie Curies or Albert Einsteins,

  • for every one that we discover,

  • how many go undiscovered?

  • Think about all of the work that those kids,

  • who might be living in a slum some place in India

  • right now, if they're able to tap into their potential,

  • what they might be able to do for us.

  • They might find the vaccine for the next pandemic,

  • a cure for a disease, write the next great novel,

  • solve existential problems for humanity.

  • So that's kind of the dream of Khan Academy

  • and how I got started.

  • Let's see, we have more questions here.

  • From Instagram, @sarah.girl2020 saying,

  • I'm having trouble staying focused

  • on my online classes.

  • How can I be a little bit better?

  • Good question, Sarah.

  • I'll tell you.

  • Well there's a couple things that I've been doing.

  • One is love to keep moving.

  • So you can imagine I sit in a lot of meetings

  • these days, and now they're ll over Zoom and Google Meet

  • and whatever else.

  • What I've been doing, is actually I've been

  • doing them while walking.

  • And you'll be surprised, I'm surprised.

  • You can be on a phone in a Zoom meeting

  • and you can still see the screen and see what's going on.

  • I find if I'm just in a park, ideally you're in some place

  • where there's not any traffic,

  • so you can't get hit by a car.

  • But I go to my local park and I just keep doing laps

  • while I'm in the meeting.

  • And I find that that helps me stay focused.

  • It gives me exercise.

  • I get fresh air, which is especially important

  • in this time of social distancing.

  • So if you're lucky enough to have a safe environment

  • to walk in, I think that's another thing.

  • I think a lot of educators are trying to figure

  • things out right now.

  • So I think if you give constructive feedback,

  • saying, hey, teacher, that was a great session.

  • I really appreciate it,

  • but I would love to see even more interactivity.

  • I would love ways, there's ways that we can participate.

  • You can ask us questions.

  • I think a lot of educators would welcome that.

  • They want you to participate more.

  • So that's another way to stay really engaged.

  • In general, whether it's online or off line

  • or just work you have to do and there's something

  • called a Pomodoro Technique,

  • which we've talked about before.

  • It's named after, a Pomodoro is a type of tomato,

  • but it's named after a timer that was shaped

  • like a Pomodoro tomato.

  • The general idea is you give yourself 20 minutes,

  • 30 minutes, you put it on the timer and you say,

  • okay, over that time, I'm gonna work on whatever it is.

  • And then when that timer rings,

  • you give yourself a 10 minute break.

  • 10 minutes to take a walk, do some jumping jacks,

  • dance a little bit.

  • Whatever, and then get back to work.

  • And by doing it in those sessions,

  • you might think that 10 minutes is kind of a waste of time

  • where you're taking a break, but it's not.

  • You're rejuvenating and it'll give you more energy

  • to then focus and go deep

  • on whatever you're trying to work on.

  • So more testimonials.

  • And I actually wanna give a shout out to thank yous

  • on several of the donations.

  • Elliot H., on YouTube, thank you so much for your donation.

  • Sjwetel, if I'm reading your username correctly.

  • Thank you so much.

  • Just donated $100 on YouTube.

  • Thank so much Sjwetel, and Sjwetel writes,

  • thank you Sal and everyone at Khan Academy.

  • It's a noble cause.

  • The more knowledge we all have, the more humane we become.

  • And I apologize if I'm not pronouncing your name correctly,

  • or your username: sjwetel or shwetel.

  • Couldn't agree with you more and I will emphasize,

  • I get a disproportionate amount of credit for Khan Academy.

  • There's 200 plus full-time folks.

  • About five or six of them are actually behind the scenes

  • right now, supporting this live stream.

  • And beyond that, we have thousands of volunteers

  • around the world.

  • And that show of confidence through that donation

  • makes a huge difference.

  • And that donation is going to make a huge difference.

  • There's this framework that this foundation,

  • the Robin Hood Foundation, which focuses on New York,

  • but it's a framework that they came up with

  • for calculating something called social benefit

  • to cost ratio.

  • In the for profit world, you look at something called

  • return on investment, where you say, hey,

  • if I invest $100 and I get $30 more,

  • and I get my $100 back, that's a 30% return on investment.

  • And so in my hedge fund world, we're all back

  • in the hedge fund days, I would always think about,

  • okay where we are we gonna get the best financial return?

  • Well in the not for profit world,

  • where are you gonna get the best impact return?

  • How much impact for your dollar?

  • And it's generally good if you're able to get

  • even a two to one impact to dollar ratio.

  • So there's a social impact of two.

  • And you say how do you measure social impact?

  • Well you could say, if someone's able to improve

  • their academic standing by x amount,

  • how would that affect their lifetime earnings?

  • How much will that decrease costs in other parts of society?

  • Education is inversely correlated with how much

  • you have to imprison people and crime,

  • and all of these other things.

  • And then there's tax revenues that you get

  • the more educated people get.

  • And so using proxies like that,

  • a very good social return is about a 10 to one.

  • Social benefit to cost ratios, 10 to one is a great one.

  • If you look at Khan Academy and there's actually a video.

  • I'm happy to share it, but it's a video

  • where I do that back of the envelope calculation.

  • You'll see Khan Academy, you get some place

  • between, actually, pre-COVID, some place between

  • a 250 to 400 to one ration.

  • And post-COVID, now that our usage is about

  • two x, three x of what it typically is,

  • those numbers go up by two, three x.

  • So you're talking about in a world where good social

  • benefit to cost ratio is two to one,

  • three to one, we're talking about a social benefit

  • to cost ratio which is like 500 to one.

  • So for anyone donating even that dollar,

  • you should feel very good about that.

  • Even that one dollar.

  • That's going to drive learning for someone on the planet,

  • probably someone who doesn't have a dollar,

  • to learn for a good amount of time.

  • If I remember the numbers correctly,

  • our cost of delivering learning

  • is around 15 cents per hour.

  • So even that dollar is able to impact a lot of people.

  • That $100 that you gave, Sjwetel, there's gonna be a lot

  • of people that are gonna be empowered because of that.

  • So thank you so much for it.

  • So I have more testimonials here.

  • So this is from Heather, who's a parent.

  • Heather writes, I've been using Khan Academy for six

  • of my children since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic.

  • I would have used it sooner had I known it was available

  • free of charge.

  • Please donate if you can.

  • It's truly beneficial to families, especially now.

  • Well thank you Heather and we agree with you.

  • One of the things, donate, that would be huge.

  • And hopefully you view yourself as part of this mission

  • and part of this community.

  • For anyone out there make sure that,

  • there's other parents like Heather

  • who could benefit from this, and their children

  • could benefit, but there's still an awful lot of people

  • who don't know about Khan Academy.

  • Or maybe they heard about Khan Academy

  • and they think we're a for profit organization.

  • They think, oh that's just another one of those ed tech

  • companies that's trying to get me on some five dollar

  • a month plan or something like that.

  • That is not who were are.

  • We are there to give you free access

  • to what we genuinely believe

  • are the best materials out there.

  • One of the logical fallacies or emotional fallacies

  • we sometimes see is people think they get something better

  • when they pay for it.

  • And sometimes some of these for profit companies

  • are able to take advantage of that.

  • They're like, oh Khan Academy's free,

  • but we charge you 10 dollars a month,

  • so you must think it's better.

  • But do your research.

  • The number of efficacy studies done on Khan Academy,

  • the level of transparency, our ability to partner with folks

  • like the college board around the SAT.

  • If you objectively ask knowledgeable people

  • in the field, compare the Khan Academy resources

  • side by side with any of the things,

  • even some of these things cost hundreds of dollars a year,

  • I think you'll find that the Khan Academy resources

  • are deeper, more aligned with learning science,

  • have much more efficacy research on it.

  • Look at the Khan Academy Kids material.

  • It's free, it's not commercial.

  • I challenge anyone to find anything that costs money

  • that comes close to what the team at Khan Academy Kids,

  • and I brag about them a little bit more,

  • because I can't claim that I did that,

  • other than they kind of joined forces with us.

  • And I obviously helped fundraise for them

  • and make sure that we're aligned from a pedagogical

  • and strategy point of view,

  • but they've been doing incredible stuff.

  • And obviously on the Khan Academy, the core Khan Academy

  • where I am more involved and many, many other people

  • are involved, I can't tell you how much work is put in

  • to make sure it's aligned with learning science,

  • make sure it's aligned to standards,

  • and then do efficacy research on it

  • and make sure we're impacting as many students as possible.

  • So more questions from AMA questions, ask me anything

  • questions from YouTube.

  • Matius Ishimoto says, and I'm reading these,

  • so I don't know what this is about to say.

  • Hi Sal, I wanna thank you and the board

  • for bringing Khan Academy to Brazil.

  • Can you explain why you guys selected our country

  • and your expectations for the future?

  • So, great question, Matius.

  • It's interesting, in the early days of Khan Academy,

  • obviously we've always had this mission statement:

  • free world class education for anyone anywhere.

  • And part of that vision is we wanna make this available

  • to everyone on the planet.

  • Localized, not just the videos,

  • but the software platform, the teacher tools.

  • When we got our first funding in 2010,

  • it was from the Gates Foundation and Google.org.

  • And the Google aspect of the fund,

  • they said they wanted us to start translating

  • this into the languages of the world.

  • So that's when we started back in 2010.

  • And then I believe it was 2012,

  • we had this gentleman visit our offices out here

  • in Mountain View from Brazil

  • by the name of Jorge Paulo Lemann.

  • And our offices, even now, our offices aren't fancy

  • by any stretch of the imagination, but back then,

  • my office was above a Chinese tea shop

  • in downtown Mountain View and it was kind of,

  • you know, one of our first funders walked in and said,

  • Sal, this is not a healthy working environment.

  • She sent some painters and handymen to just make it

  • a vaguely decent environment.

  • But Jorge Paulo visited that office.

  • And if you're from Brazil, you might have heard

  • of Jorge Paulo.

  • I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know about Jorge Paulo.

  • But he's actually one of the biggest philanthropists

  • in Brazil, and he and his team came and said,

  • we need to bring Khan Academy to Brazil as soon as possible.

  • And we were a five person organization at the time.

  • We were like, oh, well, we don't know how

  • we're gonna be able to do that.

  • And they're like, we can support Khan Academy.

  • We can help support the efforts in Brazil.

  • And so the Lemann Foundation,

  • named after Jorge Paulo Lemann, they helped support

  • Khan Academy proper, and since then have been great donors

  • and supporters of us.

  • But they've also, we've been able to partner with them

  • in Brazil to localize the work into Brazilian Portuguese,

  • align it with the Brazilian national common core,

  • do efficacy and research studies in Brazilian schools.

  • There's even a soap opera episode in Brazil I heard,

  • where the protagonist ran a fundraiser for Khan Academy.

  • So we have a lot of good connections to Brazil.

  • I visited there and had a wonderful time.

  • I actually brought my whole family there.

  • And worked with the Lemann folks.

  • So that's what really pulled us in to Brazil.

  • So we have 45 translation projects around the world.

  • Most of it's volunteers who are able to do it

  • in their own languages.

  • And they're unpaid, and your donations

  • are allowing us to build a platform

  • so that they can do it.

  • But there's several geographies that we're able

  • to go deeper.

  • Brazil is one of them, India's another,

  • and then Spanish speaking Latin America,

  • especially places like Peru and Mexico.

  • We have partners, Carlos Slim Foundation in Mexico.

  • And Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor and his foundation in Peru.

  • And Tata Trusts in India.

  • These are all foundations that have allowed us

  • to go deeper.

  • But I do wanna make it clear.

  • All of these groups have each been donating

  • a lot of resources to make this happen,

  • but for all of us to reach, literally

  • the hundreds of millions of billions,

  • we need more resources.

  • And so it's a real partnership with both large

  • philanthropian foundations and small philanthropists

  • and people who can give, even that $20, that $10.

  • Or even those three dollars.

  • It all makes a huge difference.

  • A question from YouTube, Emmanuel Sowitz

  • asks, how important do you think coding will be

  • for children's education in the future?

  • I'm a big coding fan.

  • My background in undergrad, I was a computer science major.

  • I always got a lot of joy out of coding.

  • Coding empowered me to build

  • the first versions of Khan Academy.

  • Khan Academy wouldn't exist if I didn't have

  • some of those early desires to prototype with coding.

  • And so it can be a very, very valuable skill.

  • That's why we've invested on Khan Academy

  • on our coding platform where kids, and I encourage anyone,

  • anyone who thinks that coding is not for them,

  • go to Khan Academy and try our coding platform.

  • You're gonna see that it focuses

  • on the creative side of coding.

  • You get to make pictures and animations,

  • literally within minutes.

  • But it takes you all the way down the path

  • so that you can actually understand

  • fairly sophisticated ideas in computer programming

  • and computer science.

  • And so I think there's two tracks.

  • I think there's a lot of the need for software engineers,

  • computer programmers, it's only gonna increase.

  • There's so many industries that are going to leverage

  • things like computing and data analytics,

  • and data science, and artificial intelligence

  • more than they are today.

  • So there's just gonna be more and more, and more jobs there.

  • So it's valuable for that.

  • But even if someone isn't going to become

  • a computer programmer, if you're gonna become a doctor.

  • If you're gonna become a lawyer.

  • Whatever field, accountant.

  • Whatever field someone goes in,

  • almost every one of those industries

  • are going to be affected by computing going forward.

  • So it's valuable to have at least a baseline understanding

  • of what computers can do, how computing logic works.

  • So that you can navigate whatever field you go in to

  • in the future.

  • I'll also add that what's fun about programming

  • and computing is it helps build a certain form

  • of critical thinking and logic,

  • which is, I think valuable in every field.

  • So big picture, your three Rs, so to speak,

  • which were never Rs, three Rs with two Rs and an A.

  • Reading, writing, and arithmetic.

  • Those are always going to be super core

  • and there's going to be super core for the 21st century.

  • But I think computing builds a lot of those same skills

  • that the mathematics does in terms of the critical thinking.

  • And there's a creation side to it too,

  • this engineering side which is super valuable.

  • If kids can get exposed to it, I would love to see it

  • and that's why we have that on Khan Academy.

  • We also have APCS principles which is an advanced

  • placement course which is designed to be broad

  • so that a lot of people might want to take it.

  • So you can go on to Khan Academy right now.

  • You could either learn to program on our coding platform.

  • Or you go to APCS principles and I think almost anyone

  • watching this could engage on it.

  • Not only does it do the basics of coding,

  • it's how do computers work, how does the internet work.

  • What is internet security?

  • All of these things you are always hearing about,

  • we make available on Khan Academy.

  • I definitely recommend taking a look at some of that

  • work as well.

  • Let's see, there a testimonial from AJ, who's a student.

  • AJ wrote to us and says, no joke.

  • The only reason I graduated college

  • was because of Khan Academy.

  • I pledged to myself that if I graduated,

  • I would give every year after I graduated.

  • I have kept that promise and I am giving a little bit more

  • during the COVID pandemic because I want to make sure

  • that everyone has the opportunity to learn.

  • Well AJ, thank you so much.

  • That means a ton to us.

  • I know, especially for a young professional,

  • you're out of college.

  • You probably don't have a lot of money,

  • but whatever you can donate makes a big different.

  • You know it makes a different on two levels.

  • The money obviously allows us to do work,

  • allows us to hire people, pay our server costs.

  • Our server costs alone are several million dollars a year.

  • But also just that show of confidence.

  • I can't tell you, that positive energy that you send our way

  • by supporting this makes a big different to us as well.

  • It energizes me and I know it energizes the team.

  • And it sets a very powerful example

  • for hopefully other people to help donate

  • to this cause that we think can empower

  • billions of folks over generations.

  • From YouTube, Life Fan asks, Sal, if you have one million

  • dollars, what will you do with it?

  • And I'm assuming the question is if Khan Academy

  • had a million dollars.

  • If I had a million dollars I might think about

  • donating it to Khan Academy.

  • I'll answer your question.

  • I'll go on a little tangent.

  • A lot of people said, Sal, how come Khan Academy

  • isn't a for profit company?

  • And I went through that thought process

  • in the early days.

  • Before I actually even talked to any philanthropists,

  • I live in the middle of Silicon Valley.

  • Some of my friends are venture capitalists.

  • They offered, hey, I'll write a $100,000 check right now.

  • You give me X percent and then you can quit your day job

  • and we can turn Khan Academy

  • into the next billion dollar company.

  • And so you can imagine, that was very tempting.

  • But when I went through the thought process,

  • I was getting so much psychic reward from folks like AJ

  • saying how it helped them, and I said,

  • well what if we had to put a pay wall behind it?

  • Or what if when someone wants to learn algebra

  • they had to watch an ad?

  • And there's something that just doesn't feel good about it.

  • And I imagined what a home run would look like

  • in the for profit world.

  • If it's a home run, it would be a Google or a Facebook,

  • or an Apple.

  • And that's great.

  • I think all three of those organizations

  • do amazing work.

  • They all innovate in the world in amazing ways.

  • But then I thought, what would a home run be

  • in the not for profit world?

  • Well what if Khan Academy could be that next

  • great institution like the Smithsonian

  • or the library system, or the great universities?

  • And it could be accessible by literally

  • billions of people.

  • When I started this I didn't have kids.

  • Now I have three kids.

  • But I thought about my grandkids and their kids.

  • What would they be more proud of, of Khan Academy?

  • And what could keep Khan Academy sticking to its vision

  • and it mission?

  • And in my old career as a hedge fund analyst,

  • I saw how much the actions of a company

  • are dictated by who owns the company.

  • That you could have a founder who wants to do

  • very altruistic things, but as soon as the ownership

  • changes, it might go in a completely different way,

  • especially if it's owned by firms that are just out there

  • to maximize the buck.

  • So I said okay, if I want Khan Academy to last

  • multiple generations, and stay true to that mission,

  • and that mission is its true bottom line,

  • it's gotta be a not for profit.

  • And I went through the thought process.

  • Even if I were to start the next Google

  • and become a billionaire, I would just wanna donate

  • that money to the effort of education anyway.

  • So lemme just cut out the middle man.

  • And the benefit of a not for profit

  • is any excess, we don't have any right now,

  • but if we were able to not run at a deficit,

  • it's not taxed.

  • It would go towards a reserve.

  • And so I said, well why, just cut to the chase.

  • Lemme just, if I can make a decent living

  • as a professor, and I have to say,

  • Khan Academy's board pays me more than generously.

  • I feel like I'm the luckiest person on the planet

  • that I get to be paid to do what I love.

  • Anything above what I need for that,

  • what those billions that could have been?

  • I'm much happier that we're able to create

  • an organization that has impact for the broader world.

  • And I know many of the employees on Khan Academy,

  • many of them are supporting this.

  • They could go.

  • Google is in the same town as we are.

  • Facebook is down the street.

  • Apple is a couple miles away.

  • Pretty much all of them,

  • if they were just optimizing for money,

  • could go to those places and get stock,

  • and probably double, their total comp,

  • or whatever they're looking at.

  • But they've all made the decision that they want

  • to work on this mission.

  • So in a lot of ways, they're also major donors

  • to this organization.

  • That was me going on a tangent,

  • but that's where I obviously feel quite passionately

  • about the world needs something like this.

  • And I can't imagine something more,

  • I can't imagine being luckier than being able to work

  • on a mission like this.

  • And now if the question is what would Khan Academy

  • do with that incremental million dollars, it is,

  • we wanna make sure that our servers stay performant,

  • that when you go, it doesn't take seconds to load up.

  • That it's a fast, great experience.

  • We're always looking at how do we improve

  • the user experience.

  • For this coming back to school,

  • we're looking at ways to maybe do some quick diagnostics

  • and ways for students to build their foundations quickly.

  • 'Cause we know with a lot of kids out of school,

  • they're gonna have a huge variance in preparedness.

  • We would, every dollar, much less every million dollars,

  • allows us to think about adding more subject areas,

  • or improving the subject areas that we already have.

  • So those are just a sample of the things

  • that we would do with every incremental million dollars.

  • So more donors I just wanna thank.

  • So there's three people donated anonymously, $140,

  • so thank you three anonymous people.

  • You know who you are.

  • And thank you for that.

  • Petko Carmochan donated on Facebook.

  • Thank you so much, Petko.

  • Sati Meta on Facebook wrote,

  • thank you for making this available.

  • It's amazing and my eight year old loves it.

  • Well, tell your eight year old to keep going,

  • and thank you Sati for that donation.

  • From YouTube, Michelle Pally.

  • Aloha, I'm assuming you're in Hawaii.

  • Just donated on your website.

  • Thank you so much.

  • I am a teacher and use it religiously

  • for students and myself.

  • Well, Michelle, two things.

  • Thank you for your donation

  • and I would say this no matter what,

  • because I love the work, I mean the work

  • that educators do is the ultimate work.

  • But especially given this is Teacher Appreciation Week.

  • Thank you Michelle for the work you do and Aloha.

  • I actually was in Florida speaking at a teachers' conference

  • last year and I learned a lot about,

  • all of us non Hawaiians know about the term Aloha,

  • hello, goodbye, but there's this whole notion

  • of Aloha culture, which is just how do you project love

  • towards others and that really touched me.

  • And so Aloha to you as well.

  • Another anonymous donation, 50 dollars.

  • You know who you are, thank you.

  • Nashawa Shtelabi on Facebook, thank you for your donation.

  • And Nashawa wrote, thank you for all your efforts.

  • I use Khan Academy to teach my three children.

  • You are our pride and hope.

  • Oh thank you so much, that means a lot.

  • Keep up the great work.

  • Sarah Holderman, thank you for your donation.

  • Every dollar matters

  • and it means a ton to all of us at Khan Academy

  • that you're taking the trouble to donate.

  • I know a lot of you all, there's financial stress

  • in the world.

  • There's a lot of causes that need help,

  • and they're all good, noble causes.

  • But I thank all of you all for appreciating

  • that in this world right now education

  • is very, very central and the access to it

  • is very unequal.

  • And I think hopefully those of you all watching

  • realize how powerful a lever Khan Academy can be.

  • And how much scale it has.

  • As I said, we're the budget of a large high school,

  • but we're able to reach a good chunk of humanity.

  • And not just for this year, but for generations to come.

  • It's almost hard for the mind to grasp.

  • But that's what gets us excited

  • and that's what gets us energized

  • to do the work that we need to do.

  • We have another donation just came on Facebook.

  • Thank you so much, from anonymous.

  • You know who you are.

  • Maybe it's the same anonymous.

  • Maybe it's different anonymouses, I guess?

  • It looks like, unfortunately, we're all out of time.

  • I will, actually, I'll take one more question,

  • 'cause I think this is very relevant.

  • From Facebook, Gary Willmont asks,

  • how would you describe the company culture at Khan Academy,

  • how has COVID-19 affected it?

  • Well Gary, I'll tell you something I told the team.

  • We now have our company meetings now,

  • as you can imagine, on Zoom.

  • And one thing that the leadership at Khan Academy

  • has been telling all the team members

  • is this is a time that you always have to take care

  • of yourself and your family before you take care of others.

  • We have team members, myself included,

  • but I'm lucky.

  • I have my wife and my mother-in-law, we're all in the same

  • house so we're able to tag team with the kids.

  • But we have team members who might be a single parent.

  • They have young children at home.

  • It's incredibly hard.

  • And in a time like that, the last thing you need

  • is for your employer to say, hey,

  • I thought that thing that you were gonna get done

  • was gonna get done by this afternoon.

  • Where is it?

  • So we made it very clear.

  • Some of our team members are able to step up.

  • They maybe have a little more time.

  • And a lot of us are getting pulled

  • in a lot of directions, and so we're saying, hey,

  • this is not a time that we're judging you.

  • We know that the people who are drawn to this mission

  • are drawn to do the right thing.

  • And we wanna figure out how we can support you

  • in any way, shape, or form that we can.

  • And what I've told, I told this to the team

  • at Khan Academy yesterday.

  • We have these aspirations.

  • Very ambitious aspirations for what we can do

  • in the broader world.

  • Let's educate a billion people.

  • Let's create an institution so that parents,

  • teachers, students feel empowered

  • for hundreds of years to come.

  • But in order for that to feel right for the users,

  • we have to have the right energy inside of our organization.

  • If we're not energized, if we're not passionate

  • about what we do, that lack of passion

  • is going to be carried on to the learners.

  • We shouldn't do anything unless we genuinely care about it.

  • And so I emphasize with our team members

  • work should not be work

  • the way that a lot of people think about it.

  • A lot of people always think about, oh,

  • my god, it's Monday morning.

  • I guess I gotta go to work.

  • I guess I gotta pay the bills.

  • Work is where you spend eight hours, nine hours,

  • 10 hours or more per day for a good chunk of your life.

  • It should be a place that fills your soul.

  • It should be a place that gives you meaning.

  • It should be a place that makes you feel connected

  • with other people who are like-minded.

  • And that's my aspirations for Khan Academy

  • is that not only can we be, in some ways,

  • pioneers on what could happen for the world,

  • but we could also show examples of organizations

  • that believe in people that are human,

  • that are about filling your soul,

  • that aren't political in all of the kind of notions

  • that you might be used to or are stereotypical

  • in some corporate settings.

  • There can be a place where you get the best out of people

  • because every human being has a natural desire

  • to wanna help other people

  • and a natural desire to have impact on the world

  • and tackle challenging intellectual issues.

  • And I think that's what we hope to do at Khan Academy.

  • So the culture I hope is, I believe to be,

  • is very collaborative.

  • I don't sense, really, politics,

  • which I sensed at other organizations

  • that I've worked in in my life.

  • Because as I said, people could go other places

  • if they wanted to optimize for income or titles.

  • But people are coming here to optimize for impact.

  • And I think that just creates a really, really

  • positive culture inside of an organization.

  • I will now read, there's a last few folks

  • who have donated.

  • So another anonymous donation

  • on YouTube, five dollars, thank you.

  • As I said, every donation matters.

  • Neela Mookergi, local, donated on Facebook.

  • Thank you so much, Neela.

  • I really, really appreciate that.

  • And the time went by fast.

  • I guess time goes by fast when you're,

  • I guess maybe I'm talking too much.

  • I just wanna say again,

  • thank you so much for all of you who've donated in the past.

  • Thank you so much for all of you who donated now.

  • This really makes a huge, huge difference

  • for so many learners around the world.

  • And it makes a huge difference for our team

  • and our capacity to do the work that we want to do,

  • and this is especially true, now that we're in this

  • COVID crisis, and the world needs things like Khan Academy

  • that much more.

  • So thank you for being on this journey with us.

  • Tell everyone you know that we exist.

  • We want to be used by more people

  • so that we can grow our impact even more.

  • And stay safe, stay healthy, and I will see you tomorrow,

  • where we're going to have, actually, Angela Duckworth,

  • famous education researcher on things like

  • grit and resilience and perseverance and a close friend

  • of mine as well, on our homeroom live stream.

  • See you tomorrow.

  • - Hello, (speaking foreign language).

  • I like to use the schedule provided by Khan Academy.

  • My day includes doing a math lesson on Khan Academy.

  • Doing my homework on Google Classroom.

  • And doing a guided meditation on YouTube.

  • Thank you Khan Academy.

- Hello, welcome to our daily homeroom live stream.

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