Ben Kamens

@kamens

Lead dev at Khan Academy. Ex-VP of Engineering at Fog Creek.

Palo Alto, CA
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Joined December 2008
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  1. 7 hours ago

    ...and now the Bangla version. Unleashing the hard work of communities of translators:

    11:17 AM - 8 Mar 2016 · Details
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    11 hours ago

    Tear It Down (Or “Three Leaders”) :

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    Mar 7

    "It is easier to hold to our principles 100% of the time than it is 98% of the time." Clayton Christensen

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  4. Mar 7

    ½ of SAT examinees prepped w/ Khan Academy. 98% found it useful. 19% drop in # of students that paid for test prep.

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    Mar 6

    Such a valuable insight. Companies should have someone who watches over time the way CFOs watch over money.

    "You likely have to get management approval for a $500 expense... but you can call a 1 hour meeting with 20 people and no one notices."
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    Feb 29

    Reality of high-growth startup: things will feel broken, info won’t feel appropriately distributed, important things will seem overlooked.

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    Mar 4

    "For us, Holacracy was getting in the way of the work." - on management and moving off of Holocracy -

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  9. Mar 3

    "…hire eng's psyched about the house they’re gonna build, not that they’re gonna use a John Deere Nail Gun 3000 XT”

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    25 Apr 2014

    Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.

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    Mar 2

    "Google – Quality of search" – first line of the notes Ron Conway took during his first meeting with Google

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    Feb 27 Dallas, TX

    when my son was in 7th grade he used Khan Academy to prepare for the ACT. Scored in the top 3% as a 13yo as a result. Khan Rocks!

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  13. Feb 29

    First year down, many to go. Wanna join this Android team in trying to provide free education to the world? Ping me

    Reflected on our first year of Android at Khan Academy in a blog post:
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  14. Feb 28

    This () is exactly why we run KA's as "healthy hackathons" — get sleep, eat healthy, hack hack hack.

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    Feb 26 San Francisco, CA

    I made a thing for Hackweek at

    11:29 PM - 26 Feb 2016 · Details
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  16. Feb 26

    I walk away from these things so humbled. Lucky to be anywhere near this team

    Hack Week just finished at and folks just unleashed a storm of inspiring demos. Hugely energizing. 🎉
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  17. Feb 23

    Fleetwood is the worst reviewer.

    Code review
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    Feb 22

    . — made it and shared publicly: (KA's slack currently exploding w/ appreciation & points)

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    Feb 22

    . and made what is inarguably the greatest bot of all time

    5:17 PM - 22 Feb 2016 · Details
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