And I actually, just so that we can understand our marketing efforts a little

bit better, I would love to know, just a show of hands, Stanford GSB students.

If I could see where the GSB students are?

Excellent, excellent.

Greetings in the balcony.

Stanford undergrad students, welcome.

We love having you here.

Members of the rest of the Stanford

community, faculty, staff, alumni, that sort of thing.

And from the Harvard community, who has joined us besides our speaker?

Welcome.

We are delighted that you are here.

Tonight is a chance for two great schools to come together.

And, we are delighted for the evening, that we are going to spend with you.

My name is J.D. Schraum.

I'm a faculty member here at the GSB.

I teach courses in Communication, and I also

have the privilege of leading the Mastering Communication Initiative.

Which is is a series of non-credit offerings to help

students build their abilities to speak, write, and participate more effectively.

Behind me you will see some of the events

that are coming up through the rest of quarter.

If you don't have the moment to write them down quickly, you can go to our

website, which is simply gsb.stanford.edu\mastery, and that will

open up the world of mastering communication to you.

When we were looking for a speaker for this evening, we really wanted to

find somebody who had made their success

because of their ability to communicate effectively.

And, last year I had the privilege of seeing Salcon at the TED Conference.

Saw him speak at a company here in the Bay

area, and we began our dialog to have him come in.

Before I introduce the student who will introduce Sal to you, there's one

event in particular that I wanna be sure that I mention to you.

And that is, that we have a viewing of the TED Conference this year.

It will happen from February 28th to March 2nd, and we have

a site license, to broadcast the full TED Conference, here to the GSB.

To our GSB students, I encourage you to sign up by going to our website.

You'll also see information about it, in the

distributions that come out to you, through email.

But that is, we're excited about having that event here.

You did not come here tonight to hear from a professor.

You came to hear from an entrepreneur.

And so to introduce him, I'm delighted to welcome to the stage Luke Pena.

Luke is a second year MBA student in the joint degree

program, between the School of Ed and the School of Business.

And Luke, if you could come forward.

>> [SOUND].

>> From age eight to age 13, my home was my classroom.

And I was my own teacher.

Now I have the privilege of standing before

you as Luke Pena, joint MBA MA Education degree

student, Co-President of the Stanford Education Club, and proof

that non-traditional students can find the path to success.

It's my great honor and privilege to welcome you all here tonight.

And my responsibility to remind you to please not

use your cell phones and computers during tonight's event.

Back to the classroom of my youth.

I was a hyperactive child with a hyperactive mind.

Traditional schools evaluated me and determined that I

would require either medication, or special education courses.

My mother disagreed.

So my mother decided to homeschool me, and

serving as my teacher through the fifth grade.

I took tests every year to make sure that I was performing

at or above the level of my peer group in traditional schools.

When my mother decided to return to undergraduate school

to pursue her degree, I became my own teacher.

And for the next five years I relied on

a variety of non-traditional education resources to guide my learning.

Without access to these resources, I would

never have found my own passion for education.

I would have never survived grade school, and I

would never have found my way here to Stanford.

I know that there are countless

other students, traditional and non-traditional, who require

and desire and desperately need these innovative

resources to create their own education opportunities.

Khan Academy is creating these very

opportunities for students around the globe.

Along the way, Khan Academy is redefining the very

way we think about teaching, about learning, and about education.

The organization is committed to changing education for the

better by providing a free, world-class education anywhere, anytime.

The Khan Academy website now provides self-pacing

software and includes over 3,000 instructional videos

on its YouTube channel, covering everything from

basic arithmetic to college-level science and economics.

It's the most used library of educational videos on the web with 3.7 million

unique students per month, over 88 million

lessons delivered, and over 260 million exercises completed.

A growing number of classrooms around the world are relying on Khan Academy to

build student mastery of topics, and to

create space in class for dynamic, project-based learning.

Khan Academy owes its success to its founder Salman Khan.

Khan was helping a young cousin with math in

2004, communicating by phone and using an interactive notepad.

When others expressed interest, he began posting his

hand-scribbled tutorials on YouTube, and demand took off.

Before founding Khan Academy, he was the portfolio manager at

Khan Capital Management, and the Senior Analyst at Wall Capital Management.

Sal received his MBA from Harvard Business School,

where he was president of the student body.

He also holds a Masters in electrical engineering

and computer science, a BS in electrical engineering and

computer science, and a BS in mathematics from MIT,

where he was president of the class of 1998.

While at MIT, Sal was the recipient of the [UNKNOWN] Fellowship,

which he used to develop web-based math software for children with ADHD.

Children not unlike myself.

Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Sal Khan.

>> [SOUND].

>> Thank you much.

This is very exciting.

So, so how many of ya'll have been to the site, or used the site and, in some way?

Oh good.

So this is a good, good, good audience.

So I guess, how many of you have not been to the site?

Oh good, so, so I have something to show you.

So for those of you that have not been to the site,

I have a little montage that shows what, what the videos look like.

But what we'll see over the course of this, and I

actually do wanna make it as much of a conversation as possible.

There's microphones and all the rest.

I'm gonna talk for, I don't know, ten or 15 minutes.

And then I just wanna have questions, comments, anything else.

But we'll see, Khan Academy is much more than just a library of videos that

initially I started creating, and now we have

a few other people working on as well.

But let me just show, oh yes.

>> One moment to handle a technical issue.

>> Alright that wasn't too bad.

>> That was the pre-show music.

>> Oh, oh, okay, there's other things happening in the background.

Okay, alright, very good.

So here we go.

>> We can integrate over the surface and the notation usually is a capital sigma.

All these interactions are just due to gravity

over interstellar, or almost you could call it intergalactic.

So the right slot is i plus 1.

This animal's fossils are only found in this area of South America.

Nice clean band here.

They create the Committee of Public Safety,

which sounds like a very nice committee.

Notice, this is an aldehyde, and it's an alcohol.

>> It's some type of infectious disease.

>> Exactly so the key is, when you start to look

at data, you have to look at all aspects of it.

>> [UNKNOWN] is their $30 million, plus

the $20 million from the American manufacturer.

If this does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion.

>> [LAUGH].

>> Well-educated audience.

You appreciate Euler's identity and The French Revolution, that's very good.

So just to get you up to speed, and a

little bit of this was covered in the introduction, and this,

this slide, and actually some of the data from the

introduction was a few months old, and this is old, too.

What we're actually now pushing about five million unique students a month.

They're doing two million exercises a day, actually, and, and, and growing.

And you know, out in Silicon Valley we get used to a million here, million there.

Oh, you know, that's not so exciting until you get to ten million or whatever else.

But, but in education these really are large numbers.

And, you know, I didn't do that to pick on Harvard,

but, but that is, and actually since these numbers are older

now that, on a monthly basis, we're serving six to seven

times the number of students that Harvard has served since 1636.

And we're growing 400% a year, so it's, you know, we'll see where that goes.

But before we go in kind of the present of what Khan

Academy's up to, I wanna talk a little bit about how it happened.

Cuz it's, it's, you know, I still kind of wake up in the middle of the night

and wonder about this very strange journey that you're

kind of catching me hopefully in the middle of.

Or maybe very close to the beginning of, hopefully.

It's been good so far.

As was introduced, 2004 I had just gotten married.

I was a newly minted MBA, graduated in 2003.

Was working in Boston as an analyst at a hedge

fund, and I had family visiting me from New Orleans.

Right after my wedding in New Jersey, they came up to Boston.

My 12 year old cousin, Nadia, her younger brother,

Arman, who's two years younger and then the youngest, Ali.

And I showed them all the sights in

Boston, and I was very impressed with Nadia.

I hadn't seen her since I had left from, you know, I

grew up in New Orleans where, since I was in high school.

So, she was like two or three years old, and now

she's 12 years old, super smart girl, and I kept encouraging her.

I was like oh, you know, you should think about some

of these fancy schools that are in town, and all the rest.

And her mom told me, one morning before Nadia had woken up, that this

is very nice, Nadia views you an older brother figure and all the rest.

But, she's actually having trouble with mathematics.

And, I, I, had trouble believing this.

You know this, one I, we were having conversations and she seemed

at least you know super, she intimidated me among half the conversations.

And on top with that you know, we shared a certain amount of DNA.

>> [LAUGH].

And so, so I told [UNKNOWN] Nadia's mother,

that, you know, I find that hard to believe.

And when Nadia woke up, I said, well what's going on?

And she said, I took a placement exam, and I, there's unit

conversion, ounces to gallons, kilo, you

know, kilometers, meters, miles, things like that.

And she says, I just don't get that.

I, you know, my brain just checks out.

And I told her, I was like, look Nadia,

I, I've had conversations with you last few days.

We even did, I remember these little brain teasers while

we were waiting for the fireworks over the Charles River.

And I said, all of that stuff that we've been talking

about is ten times deeper and more conceptual than, than units.

And I, I'm not saying this just as a kind of a pep talk.

You, you can do this.

And, and, you know, I think like a lot of, not just

children frankly, people who've disengaged with

some content, they appreciate the pep talk.

But they're like oh, okay, you know, that's nice

but, you know, it, it probably doesn't apply to me.

And so I said, well, let's make this happen.

You go back to New Orleans.

They, they still lived in New Orleans.

And, every day after work, I'll, we'll get on something.

We'll get on the conference phone and will use

Yahoo Doodle or something, and, and we'll work together.