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Discover that soon millions had watched him. now he is funded by bill gates and he offers web lectures on everything from history to economics to computer science. >> he does happen to be good at teaching? >> just. >> bringing his skill threatened to block. >> theres a huge bureaucracy to change this is or block this. it is called the blob. i think we are able to reach students outside of the. >> inside as well. at first teachers felt threatened, but most came around when they saw how their kids...

>> it taught me a lot of things. >> five years ago hedge fund analyst sal kahn created a website to tutor a cousin. >> that worked out well. i kept doing the lecture over and over again. he said, hey, sal, why dont you put some of your lectures on a website. >> soon thousands watched his lectures. >> i started getting letters from people. theyre not like, hey, i think this kind of might have helped on my math exam. i got -- i failed calculus the first time. i started watching the videos. now im ...

Analyst sal khan created videos like these to tutor his cousin. >> that worked out well so i started tutoring her brothers and cousins and i had to do the same lecture over and over again. i had a friend who said why dont you put the lectures on you tube and i decided to give it a shot. >> welcome to the presentation on basic addition. >> soon, thousands watched his lectures. >> i started getting letters from people and comments on you tube and they are not like hey, i think this kind of might o...

Acing the class. >> the you tube numbers kept rising and he got letters from the middle east, africa. >> what sal khan has done is amazing. >> now, he is funded by bill gates and offers web lectures on everything from history to economics to computer science. his videos are viewed million is of times. >> not only is it reaching millions of students right now but even if god forbid i got hit by a bus when i walked outside it would still be able to reach millions and maybe billions of stew kents. ...

Acing the class. >> the you tube numbers kept rising and he got letters from the middle east, africa. >> what sal khan has done is amazing. >> now, he is funded by bill gates and offers web lectures on everything from history to economics to computer science. his videos are viewed million is of times. >> not only is it reaching millions of students right now but even if god forbid i got hit by a bus when i walked outside it would still be able to reach millions and maybe billions of stew kents. ...

Started tutoring h her brothers and i had to do the same lecture over and over again so i had a friend who said why dont you put your lectures on you tube. i decided to give it a shot. >> soon, thousands watched his lectures. >> i started getting letters from people and comments on youtube and they are not like hey, i think this kind of might of helped on my math exam. they are like i got -- i failed calculus the first team and i started watching the videos and now im acing the class. >> the you...

Animalla lift creates individual yeses like these. >> so then i started tutoring her cousins and the rest. and over and over again, a friend said why dont you put some of yours on to? >> and i started to get letters from people. and comments, theyre not like i think this is helping on the math exam theyre like i failed and started watching videos now, im acing the class he got letters from the middle east. >> this is amazing. >> now, he offers web lectures on everything from history, economics a...