I was teaching at Stanford at the time and had tens of dozens of students in my classes, and I felt I should try something different and see if we could do what I do and scale it to many people." In fact, in my podcast interview with Thrun, as he listed those who had been most influential to him over the course of his career, he listed Khan on the short list. In his speech he noted that he had tens of millions of students in his classes. Sebastian Thrun acknowledged in my interview with himthat "I stumbled into this after listening to a gentleman named Sal Khan of Khan Academy. As Agarwal lists the genesis of the MOOCs, he lists Khan and his Khan Academy first among the major players. (Stay tuned for my interview with Agarwal on January 20th.) Several of these leaders acknowledge that the most influential person to the MOOC landscape has been Salman Khan. In the case of non-profits like edX, CEO Anant Agarawal says, the more companies that enter this space, the merrier. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is fierce certainly, but there is also a collegial willingness to acknowledge the successes of other companies. I have had the a good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today.
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