KHAN ACADEMY

Watch. Practice.

Learn almost anything for free.

Thus states the Khan Academy website. 

Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website

You can watch, you can practice, you can coach, you can even volunteer by contributing your knowledge, there is so much one can do on it. With such knowledge database, it is increasing acting as a one stop shop for some one looking to enhance his knowledge or learn some amazing concepts.

Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School started this non-profit organisation in 2006 and since then there has been no looking back. There are over 3200 videos which one can watch and the number is continually growing.

HOW IT ALL STARTED

After completing his education, Salman Khan started tutoring his cousin and in a similar way his other relatives and friends. He started uploading his mentoring classes on Youtube, as he thought that it would be wise if he did so on web. He started gaining interest in spreading education and that is when he quit his job(very plum) and started  focusing on his tutorials and gave it a name of  "Khan Academy". Now he has the backing of great personalities like Bill Gates and Google.

Mission and Vision

Khan has stated that he wants to convert his academy into a charter school - a school where students would be watching videos and then implementing their knowledge in practical tasks.

His mission is to provide free world class education to anyone anywhere. He wants to educate the world free of cost. How can anything be any nobler than this? Kudos to him!

Enterprenuership and Innovation

Khan started his venture at the time when the concept of free education was unheard of. He revolutionised the idea. He gave a new concept to the world which the world is accepting with both arms open. He has the backing of Bill and Melinda Gates and Google who fund the Khan Academy as it is a non-profit organisation.

Khan has made his vision, to educate the world free of cost, such a huge success. He didnot have any business model as such with him. He just has a vision and a zeal to carry out his mission and rest all falls into place. 

What can we learn

The success of Salman Khan motivates us to follow our dreams and always go with them. There would be challenges in the begining, people will disapprove of you, might not be convinved of your idea. The trick lies in never giving up and staying with your idea/vision howsoever crazy it may seem at first.

Salman ventured into unchartered territory and implemented his idea and lived his dream and created a successful company out of it. It serves as a great motivation for bschool students like us.