{"id":1989,"date":"2011-11-17T21:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T09:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2012-01-20T21:39:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T09:39:40","slug":"are-you-interested-in-turning-the-khan-academy-into-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1989","title":{"rendered":"Are you interested in turning the Khan Academy into a business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is beautiful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nQuestion [to Salman Khan]: Are you interested in turning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/\">www.khanacademy.org<\/a> into a business? Maybe with some VC funding?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: I\u2019ve been approached several times, but it just didn\u2019t feel right. When I\u2019m 80, I want to feel that I helped give access to a world-class education to billions of students around the world. Sounds a lot better than starting a business that educates some subset of the developed world that can pay $19.95\/month and eventually selling it to some text book company or something. I already have a beautiful wife, a hilarious son, two hondas and a decent house. What else does a man need? With that said, if you are a social venture capitalist and are looking to deploy capital with the highest possible social return per dollar invested, we should talk. I think you\u2019ll find that there is no more measurable, scalable and high impact way to educate the world.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2011\/11\/quote-the-summum-bonum-of-social-capitalism.html\">John Robb<\/a>] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is beautiful: Question [to Salman Khan]: Are you interested in turning www.khanacademy.org into a business? Maybe with some VC funding? Answer: I\u2019ve been approached several times, but it just didn\u2019t feel right. When I\u2019m 80, I want to feel that I helped give access to a world-class education to billions of students around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}