2025-12-08
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Hey everyone, it's Guy here.
So it is the holidays and this week we're going to bring you a conversation from our archive.
It's with Sal Khan and he tells a story of how he started Khan Academy,
which is a free online tutoring service that now has over 170 million registered users and lessons in over 50 languages.
This episode first ran back in 2020.
It is such a good one.
One of our absolute favorites and I hope you love it.
It was incredibly stressful.
We were digging into our savings about $5,000 or $6,000 a month.
My male ego was trying to shelter my family from it,
so I was putting on a strong face to my friends and family.
You can imagine my mother who, when I told her I'd quit my job, her first word was, what?
Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators,
entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
I'm Guy Ross, and on the show today,
I have a random decision to help a cousin with her math homework led Sal Khan to build Khan Academy,
a free online teaching platform with nearly 30 million users a month.
So most of the products and services we've talked about on the show have been innovative or disruptive in some way.