Hi everyone and welcome to In Good Company and today we are thrilled to have a bonus episode with Sal Khan, the visionary founder of Khan Academy.

Now, we are a lot of people who have to thank Khan for all his help with our homework and learning, including on behalf of my own children.

So it's a pleasure to have you here. You have really revolutionized education.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me.

And also, Sal, it's kind of fun to have somebody else on the podcast

who has a bit of a background in a hedge fund

because you're the first one, actually.

Okay, we're hedge fund refugees.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Now, I just think it's such a lovely story,

the way you went from a hedge fund to starting Cannes Academy.

Would you mind just recapping in a few words how you got started on this?

Yeah, you go back to 2004.

I was a year out of business school.

My original background was in tech, but I go to business school.

I end up at a very small hedge fund in Boston.

A year out of business school, I get married in New Jersey.

I was born and raised in New Orleans. My family comes from my wedding in New Jersey and then comes and spends time with me in Boston and just comes out

a conversation that my 12-year-old cousin Nadia, who was staying with us, was having trouble in math.

So I offered to tutor her when she went back to New Orleans. She agreed. And the tutoring worked

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