Ben Kamens

@kamens

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

Palo Alto, CA
Joined December 2008

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

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

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

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

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

  8. "…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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    Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.

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

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    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!

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

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

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    I made a thing for Hackweek at

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

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

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

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