"I got over the idea that it wasn't my idea and decided to give it a shot." "YouTube? YouTube was for cats playing the piano, not serious mathematics," Khan recalls thinking. The demands got too much – until a friend suggested he could film the tutorials, post them on YouTube and let the family members view them whenever they chose. "Then the rest of the family heard there was free tutoring," he says, and more relatives started taking part. Khan – working as a financial analyst in 2004 after earning degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard – started remotely tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in Louisiana, who was struggling with maths. And like a lot of crazy ideas, it started by accident. Crazy or not, it's an idea that has attracted attention from Downing Street to Washington DC.
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