For those of you all this is your first time coming,

this is something that we started doing

when we started seeing school closures around the world.

Khan Academy, we are not for profit

with a mission of providing a free world class education

for anyone anywhere.

Obviously a big part of that is we've been creating

learning materials, software, videos,

all free, all not commercial.

And as soon as we saw the school closures happening,

we said we have to make this as usable as possible

for teachers, parents, and students

so that everyone can keep learning.

So that's when we started publishing schedules,

putting out learning plans, parent and teacher webinars,

and we also thought, in a time of social distancing,

wouldn't it be nice if there was a place

where we could connect in a, I guess you could say,

synchronous way, where we could have conversations,

answer each other's questions, bring on interesting guests.

And that's what this live stream is for.

And now before we get in to the meat of the live stream,

and the meat of today's live stream

will be around Giving Tuesday.

There's actually a lot of things going on.

It's National Teacher Appreciation Week.

We'll talk a little bit about that.

But it's also Giving Tuesday.

But in line with Giving Tuesday,

I do wanna remind everyone, again,

we are not for profit.

And the only way we're able to do our work,

for it to be free, for it to be non commercial.

A lot of people come to Khan Academy

and they think there's a catch.

Clearly there's a lot of resources being put into it.

Are they going to try to sell me something at some point?

The reason why we don't, and we never intend to

is because we're supported with philanthropic donations

from folks like yourself,

and we'll talk a lot about that over the course

of today's conversation.

But I do wanna give special thanks

to several corporations that have stepped up

in recent weeks when they found out

that we were already running at a deficit

before the COVID crisis, and now in the crisis

with our traffic being two to three X

of what it typically is, and we're trying to accelerate

all of these programs to figure out better ways

to support parents, teachers, and students.

Bank of America, Google.org, AT&T,

Novartis, and fastly all stepped up,

literally in a matter of days,

to make sure that we have less of a gap.

But we still need more help.

I wanna make it very clear.

Khan Academy is much more than just me.

There's 200 full-time teachers, researchers,

engineers, designers, managers,

who are bringing Khan Academy to you

and because of that we're able to serve,

we have over 100 million registered users.

There's 10s of millions of learners who come

on a monthly basis.

And that's only possible with financial support donations.

So given that today is Giving Tuesday,

that's going to be the focus of this,

but this will be a two-way exchange.

I am going to try to convince you,

if you're in a position.

I don't wanna guilt you if you're not in a position

to do so, but every dollar matters.

But if you're in a position to do so,

please think about donating.

And in return, the main thing in return,

all of us at Khan Academy are going to be able

to do our work and hopefully serve you and many millions

of students around the world.

But I'm also happy to answer any questions

that you might have about anything.

So this is a true ask me anything.

And so whether you're watching on Facebook

or on YouTube, put your questions in the message boards.

Myself and some team members, we're gonna be looking at that

and as long as it's decent and nothing is out of bounds.

I'm happy to answer any question.

So while we're waiting for questions to come in,

I'm just going to, we have some goals with our team.

We're hoping to get 20,000 donations.

We care about the number of people donating

because that shows that there's other people

in this boat with us.

There's other people around the world who care

about this mission of free world class education

for anyone anywhere.

Even if they're donating three dollars.

That makes a difference, and it's a huge show of support

for the work that we're doing.

Our goal is to raise $50,000 on YouTube in the month of May,

and $25,000 on Facebook this week.

If you look, I believe it's on my left,

I think I'm pointing in the right place,

you will see donate buttons, either on Facebook

or YouTube where you'll have an opportunity to donate.

Once again, if you're in a position to do so,

please think about doing that.

And I will read some quick testimonials

just to give a sense of, a flavor of how people

are using Khan Academy right now.

This is the type of thing that gives us energy

and I hope all of you all, if you view yourself

as part of the Khan Academy community, which I hope you do,

especially if you're a supporter,

that you take satisfaction in things like this.

This is a thing we got recently.

This here is a quote from a physician, actually.

I'm a resident physician in New York.

We've been working long, hard days with COVID patients.

I'm writing to say thank you.

I used your early materials to get through

my undergraduate and medical education.

My two and a half year old has been home

due to school closures and I haven't had a chance

to see her much in the last few weeks.

I came home today and she said,

let's sing the Khan Academy song

in regards to a song that has helped her learn to count.

Your educational programs carried me through my education

and are now teaching my young daughter, thank you.

That's John, and so first of all,

John, if you're listening or maybe you'll watch

the recording of this later, thank you so much for that.

One, the work you're doing.

Medical workers are genuinely on the front line of this war,

whatever you wanna call it, against COVID,

so thank you for doing that work.

And it makes us incredibly happy

and incredibly proud that not only were we able

to be part of your education.

So in our way by us helping you many years ago,

maybe you're going to be able to help

that many more people with COVID.

But also in this time of need,

and I'm sure your family needs support

and your family's going through a lot of stress,

it's our honor to be able to support your daughter

through her learning.

And for those of you who don't know,

Khan Academy Kids, I had Caroline over,

who's the founder of Khan Academy Kids

last Friday on the live stream.

I can't speak highly enough how cool it is.

I have a five and a half year old.

They just added first grade content.

They also just added teacher tools,

so teachers can make assignments and see

what students have completed.

And it starts as early as ages two.

It goes up to ages seven.

And I really think that is, it's a math, reading,

writing, social emotional urging.

It even has stuff on logic.

It covers all of the standards that can be covered

in that format.

I encourage parents or anyone in your family

who might have an early learner

to check that out.

And that's the type of work that we're able to do

with this support.

This all to cost resources,

and whether it's the core Khan Academy

that many of you all are familiar with

or Khan Academy Kids, it's your donations

that allow us to build that, support that,

support 10s of millions of users every month.

And to continue to improve on that.

So let's see.

We have questions here.

One from Instagram, Sarah Hellisleesleepy, I think.

What motivated you to build Khan Academy?

So I've told this story a little bit,

but I'll tell it again in a fast form.

I was tutoring cousins back in 2004.

My day job, I was an analyst at an investment firm.

And I just saw that maybe there was some tools

that I could help build that will help family.

So that's where I started writing the exercise platform.

A very early version of it.

For my cousins to get practice, feedback.

For me as their teacher or their tutor

to keep track of what they were doing.

And then a few years later a friend suggested,

hey why don't you make video lessons

to supplement this software thing you're making.

And I initially thought it was a horrible idea.

And I was, cats playing piano.

YouTube, it's not for serious math.

But I got over the idea.

It wasn't my idea, and I gave it a shot.

And long story short, I made it for my family,

but it soon became clear that people

who are not my family were watching.

And by 2008, I said this could be a real thing,

and that's where I incorporated Khan Academy

as a not for profit.

And for those of you who don't know

what a not for profit is, it means no one owns Khan Academy.

It is a public charity.

I do not own Khan Academy.

Or another way to think about it, you own

as much of Khan Academy as I do.

I do get a salary from Khan Academy.

All of our team members get salaries from Khan Academy.

But we are employees of this organization.

It's governed by a board,

and that board, it's in the for profit organization,

the board is, how do we maximize shareholder value?

In a not for profit board, the board says,

how do we maximize impact.

Especially impact aligned with our mission,

which is a free world class education

for anyone anywhere.

And by 2009, I was hoping at first to set up

as a not for profit, maybe some friends would volunteer

to help me out.

But by 2009, I had trouble focusing on my day job.

My first child was just born.

My wife was a medical resident, so we're making

a little bit of money, but I decided to quit my job

and we lived off of savings.

We were digging in to our savings, about $5,000 a month.

Just under the belief that this needed to exist

in the world.

Back then there was about 100,000 people using Khan Academy

on a monthly basis.

And I used to say, who knows?

Maybe one day it'll be a million, 10 million, 100 million.

And at the time those seemed like delusional ideas,

but those are now true.

And I think of the opportunity and I said,

maybe one day billions could learn from this.

And imagine if future generations,

they don't view education as something that only

the affluent have or only certain people have.