What began in 2004 as a way to help his cousin learn algebra quickly evolved into an innovative new way to teach students. Salman Khan is a former hedge fund analyst who uses his incredible acumen, having acquired BS degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, an MS in Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Harvard to educate millions of young people around the world. What is innovative about this is the means. Khan began by tutoring his cousin online with Yahoo\u2019s Doodle pad and because of its popularity (initially amongst his family members) he put the videos on Youtube in 2006. Such was their popularity that he quit his hedge fund career three years later to focus on it full time.<\/p>\n
His Youtube channel, Khan Academy<\/a>, has received over 250million views in a few short years. It quickly developed into an educational non-profit website<\/a>. Khan has stated his desire to \u201caccelerate learning\u201d and correspondingly the slogan is \u201cproviding a high quality education for anyone, anywhere\u201d. His innovative project attracted the financial support of Google and the commendation of Bill Gates. TED<\/a> and TEDx<\/a> talks soon followed along with features on CNN, a place on Time\u2019s 100 Most Influential of 2012 and schemes in place to use his videos in the most isolated parts of Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n