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(Replying to a trollish comment, but don't want to push it to the top). There was a comment about the salary that CEO Sal Khan takes, with is over $800,0000 per year. I think Khan Academy is fantastic, and was going to donate until I saw this figure (verified). I think that it's entirely inappropriate to extract that much from the donations.
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This 1m/yr is nothing compared to the impact KA has. It's no longer just a site with videos; it is a huge e-learning platform that is widely used and integrated in schools across the world. Being the CEO of KA must be a lot of work and I think most people would agree is worthy of that level of compensation. Or to put it another way: the government is also a nonprofit organization, but it needs good workers to fulfill…
No one gets in the government gets paid $800k, the highest paid salary is the president, at $400k.
He wouldn't even make the list.
https://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/22/top-california-public-...
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He may ask for the money, you may consider his salary and decide not to donate and everybody goes his way. The comments here smell like there is a lot of acute jealousy floating around...
I don't think its jealousy. Millions of people became unemployed in the last 2-3 weeks, so it feels disingenuous to ask for money when he's making $800k when people are living off their savings. It might be better to donate to a local school, food bank, or neighbors who are having a hard time instead.
(Replying to a trollish comment, but don't want to push it to the top). There was a comment about the salary that CEO Sal Khan takes, with is over $800,0000 per year. I think Khan Academy is fantastic, and was going to donate until I saw this figure (verified). I think that it's entirely inappropriate to extract that much from the donations.
For reference, there are many developers making more than that in SV, and they don’t run their organizations.
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Significantly less. This feels like somebody setting up a GoFundMe to pay off their credit card debt. They paid their CEO an absurd salary, and now they need more money. That sounds like a you-problem.
You really think 800k is “absurd” money for what he does? Boy, I have news for you.
If anyone from Khan Academy is reading this: I tried to donate and my transaction was flagged as "suspicious", now my card is blocked. Probably because their PSP doesn't seem to implement 3DSecure. What's grating is that after I tried to donate I had to solve a bunch of reCaptchas before it showed me the failure status.
Very likely Khan Academy can't help. Also your bank probably doesn't know why and neither does their fraud prevention service provider that runs some machine learning/AI system somewhere that decided to flag your transaction. At least that has been my experience in dealing with these things.
(Replying to a trollish comment, but don't want to push it to the top). There was a comment about the salary that CEO Sal Khan takes, with is over $800,0000 per year. I think Khan Academy is fantastic, and was going to donate until I saw this figure (verified). I think that it's entirely inappropriate to extract that much from the donations.
I think he is being underpaid by at least a multiple. I wish we valued teachers like him more. He should be making athlete level money. I support Math for America that provides stipends to smart teachers. It has the same premise: good teachers are rare and it’s good for everyone if they stay in education instead of being lured to Google or Goldman Sachs. https://www.mathforamerica.org/
Is this a common Goldman pipeline? Do they have recruiters hanging around teachers' lounges? The teachers I know who have gotten fed up with all of it have become insurance agents, agricultural extension people, etc. b^)
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He may ask for the money, you may consider his salary and decide not to donate and everybody goes his way. The comments here smell like there is a lot of acute jealousy floating around...
I don't think its jealousy. Millions of people became unemployed in the last 2-3 weeks, so it feels disingenuous to ask for money when he's making $800k when people are living off their savings. It might be better to donate to a local school, food bank, or neighbors who are having a hard time instead.
It isn't like Khan is some religious cult and those unemployed people think they're now going to "hell" if they don't donate. Unemployed individuals will make a decision to donate or not.
There are also millions who are not unemployed and are WFH making good money, FAANG.
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You really think 800k is “absurd” money for what he does? Boy, I have news for you.
Part of me thinks these folks making an issue of the CEOs pay and therefore not donating are trolls and that they may have interests in Coursera, edx, etc., and don't like having to compete with Khan Academy.