Passionate about education, he also teaches at a coding bootcamp in Vancouver, Canada. When he's not coding, he spends time bike touring, rock climbing, exploring new documentaries, and playing bad music to experiment with his audience. Hung has more than 17 years of experience in software quality assurance. Passionate and dedicated to releasing quality products, he is super excited to be part of Khan Academy and help give back to the community. Outside of work, Hung enjoys spending time with his first baby boy and family,,followed by running, cycling and sipping on a cup of Philz coffee.
Susan loves working with others to turn visions into reality. Before joining Khan Academy, Susan helped shape new product concepts and technologies at Amazon.
Outside of work, she enjoys running local trails, hiking near the coast, consuming poetry, and editing photos on her smartphone. She believes in the future. She wishes you well. Passionate about people, education and technology she always seeks to unite these passions and at Khan Academy this is possible.
She has been working in Education as a teacher for over 15 years and with teacher training and capacity building since Outside of work Dan seeks adventure and learning. He enjoys hiking, camping, traveling and photography.
Responsible for development of data-driven campaigns and cross-channel strategies paid, social, email and PR focused in bring and engage users to our platform. A first-generation college graduate, Sandi holds a masters degree in accounting from North Carolina State University and a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke University. Nada is passionate about education since she was TAing for computer science classes during college. After completing her internship at Khan Academy, Nada was eager to continue working with an incredible team that wants to provide free, world-class education to everyone, everywhere.
Jason joined Khan Academy in and loves working with talented, fun people solving important problems that have positive impact for customers. Jason built Intuit's QuickBooks, has experience building startups and recently lead front-end engineering at Financial Engines. Away from work you can find Jason playing tennis, golf, ultimate frisbee, and hanging out with his family. Adam has taught science to high school students and teachers in Cameroon, to college students at Colgate University, and to students all over the world as a curriculum designer and manager at IXL Learning.
He earned his Masters degree while studying how DNA methylation affects the structure and function of chromatin, and his Doctoral degree while investigating the ecological and genetic consequences of polyploidy in flowering plants.
Lauren is a scientist-turned-educator who is excited to be creating chemistry content at Khan Academy! Before coming to Khan, Lauren was a curriculum designer at IXL, where she developed fun and engaging science lessons for middle school.
Lauren holds a PhD in chemistry from Caltech. In her spare time, Lauren loves to travel 40 countries and counting! Robert is a software quality engineer with over 4 years of experience. Robert works with android, iOS and PC software and hardware. He loves learning, is analytical, focused, and organized. When he is not working he loves spending time with his wife and son and playing obscure video games.
Joe manages day-to-day office operations at Khan Academy including vendor management, events and real estate needs. Away from the office he enjoys time with family, music, hobbies and yearly trips to his favorite beaches. Fan of breakfast burritos and proud minivan driver. She received her B. Before joining the Khan team, Kami was a teacher and instructional coach in the elementary grades in Colorado and Philadelphia.
Kami enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and chasing around her daughter. Allison is part of the small but mighty team working to create ELA content. Before coming to Khan, Allison was a reading teacher, a literacy specialist, a librarian, and a literacy coach. Kathy is excited to work at a place that is re-imagining education.
Ruslan is an automation engineer in the Quality Engineering team. Passionate about machine learning, blockchain and web developing. Matt has a lifelong passion for learning and education. His last gig before Khan Academy was at Ithaka, a not for profit serving academic institutions and researchers. Megan is a science content creator at Khan Academy, specializing in biology. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley where she studied the molecular mechanisms by which bacteria cause diseases in plants.
Megan loves thinking about how best to teach biology concepts, and is excited to help learners discover a passion for science through her work at Khan Academy. She manages daily operations, snack stocking, and office organization. Aimee is a former Pre-K teacher and loves being on a team that's committed to equalizing educational opportunities for our youngest learners. Aimee enjoys reading, cooking, and taking her dogs to the park.
She is originally from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Angelo is a frontend focused engineer that is passionate about delivering awesome products that truly benefit users. Outside of the office, you may find Angelo transmitting on Amateur Radio frequencies KK6LDH, letting magic smoke out of electronics, futzing with his cars, or off in the mountains camping.
Adam is a software developer with a passion for building useful and understandable user experiences. Aviv works on strengthening, elevating and celebrating our community of practice through our Khan Academy Ambassador Program and Teach With Khan educator communities.
Given her background teaching and coaching in the NYC school system, Aviv especially enjoys partnering with Khan educators to develop resources for differentiating instruction, engaging students, and driving both teacher and student ownership around learning and growth mindset.
When not in conversation with teachers, Aviv can be found on a yoga mat, running in the park, or reading. As the daughter of a mad scientist, Six feels it's her mission to bring order to chaos while spreading fun.
A long time Silicon Valley veteran, she's worked at diverse companies from Apple to Napster. In her spare time, Six enjoys writing science fiction, making video games, and writing short autobiographies in the third person. Liz is a backend developer with previous experience working on large scale products at AWS.
She's passionate about learning and excited to join the Learning Platform team at Khan Academy. In her spare time Liz does search and rescue with King County, paints, and attempts to keep up with her massive backlog of books to read. He loves to play sports like basketball, volleyball, and squash in his free time. Carolina is excited to work on the Portuguese course in order to help Brazilian students increase their knowledge and gain confidence. Prior to joining Khan Academy, she spent 8 years working as a textbook editor and author.
Carolina is grateful for all of the educational opportunities she has had and wishes to help provide better educational opportunities to as many people as possible. Irene is a designer on the Marketing, Product and Philanthropy team. Prior to this, she worked on scaling Khan Academy, and in between, she did a stint at grad school.
For this, she has been crowned a Khan Academy Boomerang. Achievement unlocked! After receiving his M. Right before joining Khan Academy, he was the Director of Curriculum at Academic Approach, a tutoring and test prep company in Chicago.
When he is not developing test prep content, Duo serves as board member and treasurer of the audio drama nonprofit HartLife NFP, cooks for humans and sometimes cats, and tries to be low-key entertaining in life. He loves precise measurements and other people's secrets, and he probably likes you. Cat has a degree in Psychology, and taught ESL in South Korea and worked in Special Education before beginning to study software engineering as a hobby. Working at Khan Academy allows her to develop her passion for software and continuous learning while still giving back to students.
Michael Chanover is the vice president of design. Prior to joining Khan Academy, Michael served as the vice president of design and user experience at NerdWallet, where he led a team of designers, researchers, and writers across product design, research, and brand toward solutions that enabled consumers to make financial decisions with confidence.
Michael also previously served as vice president of design at Shopkick, a mobile loyalty platform; chief creative officer for Fingerprint, a gaming platform; and vice president of product for the Alsop-Louie portfolio company, Kidlandia. Michael was the global creative director of web and brand at the educational toy company, LeapFrog Enterprises, where he led brand and user experience design.
Michael spent four years in the San Francisco and New York offices of Frogdesign as executive producer and general manager. Amy is a technical recruiter that loves all things food, cats, video games, and internet meme related. Sidnei has joined as Country Manager for Khan Academy Brazil to lead our local partnerships and programs and scale up our operation to reach increasingly more learners in the coming years.
Stephanie loves all things social media and online community. She leads the social team that brings out the joy for Khan Academy's virbant community of learners, teachers, and parents. She gets to tell stories for her day job. Reads stories for leisure. Finds stories by exploring with her husband and their big, floofy dog. Dave is a backend engineer working on the infrastructure team. He's an advocate of high quality comprehensive code. In his free time, you can usually find Dave playing with his kids, reading a book, watching a movie, playing video games, or cooking.
Possibly all at the same time. Steve is a full stack developer working on the districts and rostering team. He brings an infectious enthusiasm, a commitment to continual learning, an empathic orientation, and a breadth of technical experience.
He strives to make a safe, accessible environment, where everyone is appreciated for their contributions and can reach their full potential. Since building software is an inherently communicative art, he strongly believes sprinkling in bad puns makes for better software [citation needed]. Carolina holds a B. She has worked in localization for over a decade and she's been interested in education her entire life. Starting her career as a translator, moving into project management and localization, she now works at Khan Academy managing our Spanish localization program, ensuring our content reaches learners all over the world!
Outside of work, Caro enjoys spending time with family including her two cats, Oliver and Nene, and her dog, Milla , traveling, hiking and cooking. Dave is a web developer who enjoys solving complex problems and working with smart, passionate people to get the job done. When not working, Dave enjoys board games, DIY projects, and spending time with his wife and two kids. Amri leads the philanthropy function in Khan Academy India.
She's a huge advocate for the incredible potential that is possible in the country, and can't wait to see the fundamental shift that KAI will create. Amri also had her own education start-up for ten years, being one of the first organizations to introduce soft skills into the Indian school curriculum.
Outside of work, Amri loves to read, bike, and constantly has a running to-do list for every part of her life! Ioana works on the security team, helping to keep Khan Academy's learners safe.
She first interned at Khan Academy in , then came back for another internship the following summer, and finally joined full-time in ! Outside of work, you'll probably find her either baking or eating baked goods. Tony is a web engineer on the Learning Platform team. His passion for education has led him to Khan Academy where he now helps deliver personalized experiences for learners everywhere! Liz is a Designer on the Classroom team, supporting teachers who use Khan Academy in schools around the world.
Liz spends most of her non-working hours outside with her husband and 2 dogs Australian Shepherds, or with the many cacti and succulents they collect together. Jennifer is a software engineer on the Districts team. Before joining Khan Academy she helped build mobile websites at Mobify. When she's not working you can find Jennifer spending time with her family, re-watching one of her favourite shows or listening to true crime podcasts.
In her free time, she's usually wandering around San Francisco, looking at birds. Dave started his technical career in networking and internet security. Having always wanted to be an educator he has refocused his efforts towards online educational resources and he couldn't be happier! Dave studied math and computer science and is very excited to combine the two building data and analytics platforms.
When not at work Dave enjoys family time, board games, card games, tutoring, riding his bike. Dave is also an organizer the Detroit Devops Days conference and his neighborhood community theater. Nisha is a software engineer who studied math and computer science at UC San Diego. She is enthusiastic about accessibility and internationalization.
Nisha also enjoys traveling, video games, and petting cats. You can catch her periodically trying to learn new languages although she's still not fluent in any yet. She is passionate about building and supporting the team to be driven, feel engaged and live our awesome Khan culture and values. Outside of work she enjoys travelling, exploring different cuisines and is an amateur saxophonist.
As our Chief Learning Officer, Kristen ensures our offerings at Khan Academy are based on solid research about how people learn. She also leads our content team who create all the videos, articles, and exercises you see on the site. Kristen has spent her career trying to find ways that technology can help more learners learn more. Ben previously worked at Pivotal, where he cultivated his enthusiasm for writing clean, well-tested programs. He's excited to be helping build the future of Khan Academy's test prep products.
When he's not programming, he spends his time running, cooking enormous amounts of vegetarian food, drinking tea, and playing board games. He is the author of several unpopular open source projects. Yash is excited to be back at Khan Academy as his first step into post-graduate life. Some of his hobbies include traveling and cooking, but mostly he loves to explore and learn new things. He is looking forward to working with this incredible team on impactful projects and to grow as an engineer along the way.
Outside of work, Crystal can be found spending time chasing after her toddler and attempting to train her husband to be a better Instagram husband. She enjoys going on photowalks, traveling, exotic birds, cooking recipes from NY Times, looking at art and design aesthetics, and gardening.
Jeremy has previously worked in e-commerce and fintech. Now looking for a career with more meaning, he works on delivering performant systems to power Khan Academy's free education platform. Outside of work, he enjoys building things out of wood for his kids and trying to produce edible nutritious food in the kitchen.
Her interests outside of design include outdoor adventuring, nature stuff, eating a lot of food, art stuff, and hanging out with her dogs Mabel and Trout. Leith thinks that learning new things and writing software are difficult. At Khan Academy, he hopes to help both become more fun, more accessible and maybe even a tad bit easier. Sam enjoys solving problems with people and, when appropriate, with computers. He has had the opportunity to devlop software for things separated by 10s of nanometers as well as 10,s of kilometers.
Jeanette is a full stack web developer who loves bringing awesome and accessible user experiences to life. Outside of work she is many things, including a cat parent, a beginner ice hockey player, and a board game enthusiast.
A Toronto-startup veteran, Dan has finally exhausted the list of local companies that will hire him, and is very excited and humbled to be part of the team. When he's not designing backend systems or playing video games with his partner, Dan enjoys trying to balance his computer parts and pet budgets. Outside of work she enjoys identifying native plants, admiring residential architecture and writing poems about bugs.
Juan is a product designer living in Brooklyn, NY. Previously, he lived in Massachusetts, previous to that, he lived in South Florida, and previous to that, he lived in Colombia. When not designing, you will usually find him exploring the city, normally at a park or museum. Michael joins the team as a Quality Engineer having been a web and mobile automation engineer for several years prior.
He has automated hundreds of tests for dozens of products and enjoys seeing green results. He has had a passion for teaching and learning since he was in elementary school and is excited to be able to contribute to that mission at Khan Academy.
If given the opportunity, he would probably eat cheeseburgers every day. Eric enjoys solving problems, learning new things and helping others. At Khan Academy he is focused on devops.
Outside of work, Eric is active in his local community and schools. He enjoys running, hiking and sailing. Priyanka Sharma, Ph. I work with the content platform team to bring high-quality educational content to students and independent learners around the world. Dibyendu joined Khan Academy in December He works on crafting products and programs to drive high fidelity use of learning resources.
Outside work Dibyendu likes traveling, cooking, sketching, playing string instruments and following football. Emily is a software engineer on the learning platform team. In her free time, she enjoys yoga, baking bread, and playing video games. Reid cares deeply about education, accessibility, and building experiences that reach as many people as possible and make their lives easier — so he's thrilled to be working at Khan Academy!
Outside of work, he likes word games, learning new things, building DIY projects, and exploring the city. She gravitates towards the authentic connection cultivated in improv courses, the playful joy in dance like Zumba, the kinetic energy of immersion in live music, the glee of gazing at local birds, the constructive discomfort of vulnerageous learning, and the meaning created in intimate gatherings.
All organic, free ranged boi but I do love In N Out burger. Bake a lot of chocolate chip cookies, play too much Valorant, and have a passion for personal finance. Roth IRA, K, mutual funds, etc. Personal finance is the key to a happy life. In their spare time they like to sing, play music, go on walks in nature, watch Star Trek, and find new vegan restaurants to try. Their dream job is to be on Broadway.
Jack has been working as a prolific software engineer in the North Carolina area and has worked on many enterprise web applications. In his free time, Jack can be found cooking new things in his kitchen, lifting and putting down heavy objects at the gym, and catching up on his favorite NBA teams. Walt is focused on maintaining and enhancing the data infrastructure at Khan Academy. He has a background in data science, music, and nonprofits. In his free time Walt loves to read, travel, cook for his family, and listen to and write music.
Alex has long admired Khan Academy and its mission - including using it to homeschool his two daughters - and is thrilled to finally be a part of making it even better.
Before Khan Academy, Alex worked in software consulting and the semiconductor industry at Texas Instruments. Pratap is passionate about building interfaces that help people tell stories using technology and data. Previously, he helped built data products for the likes of Reuters, Novartis and Govt. In his free time, he loves exploring India through data. Maria is a Sr. So, in an unambiguous attempt to attract traffic I've put together this list of songs about cats.
Misheard Lyrics: Celine don't like it. From New York Post A United States Army specialist found the purr-fect pet while serving overseas — and now seeks financial support to help bring the kitty home. As long as you stick to the bounds of good taste and more modern music would be appreciated by the deceased, you can choose the perfect pop-rock songs for funerals. They're the Internet's favorite animal.
CD Baby retired our music store in March of in order to place our focus entirely on the tools and services that are most meaningful to musicians today and tomorrow. Jan It was taken from the band's debut album, Stray Cats.
Same digital music service. If you think a good song with cat in the title is missing from this list, go ahead and add it so others can vote for it too.
Yusuf Islam -- commonly known to the world by his stage name, Cat Stevens -- has announced a 50th anniversary box set celebrating his seminal LP Teaser and the Firecat. Check out our list for everything from classic Halloween songs to creepy tunes from your favorite movies and T. A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop.
Hit the bongos like Bongo Cat! Public Onsale begins August 20th at 10 am local. It's all here. The splendidly titled For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night is several steps ahead in terms of fresh musical ideas that wholly The 20 best glam-rock songs of all time. Grumpy Cat!! It throws them off because it isn't expected; they weren't prepared for this sudden blast of sound that they cannot escape. Tugger's vocals span from D4 to D6 falsetto. Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys.
View Release Listen on Player. Uncaged - Released October 21, The owner is more than willing to accommodate you if a vinyl is not in stock and there's a wonderful selection of rock music. You just might want to start walking your own cat! Cats - The Musical. An interesting list for me as I'm not a cat person by any stretch of the imagination. Do you? Best Kittycat Song feat. Recommended for you guitar, rockabilly and classic rock N roll fans.
I was very influenced by The Ramones and the Sex Pistols and wanted it to have that goofy lo-fi punk rock sound. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. The song is composed in the key of A major. The fact that the Stray Cats were so fondly remembered not only by kids of the early '80s, but by older and younger listeners alike, just shows how good those three Pete the Cat: School Jam app. Celebrating our 25th year online -- to !!! You can't have the word shamrock without the word rock.
Download our mobile app now. Bad Guy to both his cats and to cat lovers everywhere. Loves Me Like a Rock. Juliet was my family's cat for one reason and one reason only: the British rock band Dire Straits. I don't see a problem with that. Milk and cereal are the perfect match and Kellogg's knows it well. But too much of a good thing can still be too much.
In the company came up with the idea to sell milk and cereal in the same box. This could've been a good and convenient idea. Breakfast mates were neither convenient for consumers nor tasty. So was it shelf stable or did it have to be refridgerated?
I don't remember this product. The Ford Pinto flop brought huge financial loss to the company and damaged its reputation. The reason behind it - the car is known for deadly fires related to rear-end collisions. These accidents resulted in around lawsuits against Ford.
Nathan Bittinger Report. There's one in our neighbourhood - and it's restored to showroom condition. Apparently this is a trend. I spoke to a mechanic who's restored about half a dozen AMC Gremlins. In Vegemite received 48, suggestions on what to name their new cheese-based spread.
Out of all the ideas they received, they decided to go with the worst one - iSnack 2. It was widely ridiculed and protested and it made the company rethink their choice. Kimberly Vardeman Report. Dreamcast was supposed to put Sega back in the game. As it turns out, Dreamcast was just not as good as PS2. It has lead to a decision for the company to abandon the console business and become a third party developer.
Part of what helped this flop in a big way was that the discs were not at all encoded as they are on PS, XBox, etc. With CD burner drives, Blockbuster video and Napster all at their prime, this means that you could build a huge game collection without giving Sega or game developers a dime. Back in , Harley Davidson went too far with brand extension. The brand released many strange products but it seems that bikers decided that enough is enough after the Harley Davidson introduced cologne.
The cologne failed to interest consumers and made Harley Davidson realize that they should stop stretching the brand into other product categories. Still on sale in Germany In DuPont launched Corfam shoes with synthetic leather. They were advertised as a much better alternative to leather shoes and managed to rustle up some excitement about their new product. However, these shoes flopped after people started complaining that the shoes were stiff and too hot for feet. And the Military still uses these shoes as their dress shoes.
They scuff easily patent, black in color. You could clean these shoes with windex glass cleaner. They were hot and uncomfortable. In the Coors Brewing Company decided to launch its first nonalcoholic beverage since Prohibition.
As it turns out, many people were confused by Coors Rocky Mountain Sparkling Water, since it had a similar name and label to that of Coors beer.
The product was discontinued in and the low sales forced Coors to stick with selling beer. Yeah, Coors should stick with what they do well Okay, they should stick with what they do, "beer. Before Apple created iPhone they partnered up with Motorola to create a new iTunes phone. Sadly, what they came up with was an underpowered phone with limited storage and that had difficulty uploading songs. I actually had this phone and loved it!
It had mb memory, which for was actually pretty impressive, I upgraded from my mb MP3 player. Honestly it was a great phone for the time. The Newton was a personal digital assistant developed by Apple. It was the first device to feature handwriting recognition.
At first glance, the device was innovative but was later discontinued because of problems with the handwriting recognition feature and a high price tag. The Newton was actually quite neat! It came to market just about 4 years too early though. Nobody yet knew how they could use the thing, Palm entered the market at a much better time.
When this audio player came out it was probably the smallest player at the time. Also, the price was way too big. In leading snack company decided to launch a new drink.
They believed that Frito-Lay lemonade would go well with their chips, but consumers disagreed. The lemonade was soon shelved after failing to interest consumers. HP attempted to compete with iPad in by creating TouchPad. However, the new tablet was just like every other tablet on the market failing to deliver something new.
It lasted only 49 days on the market selling just 20, units. Then I added the iPad on my Christmas list. In Netflix offered streaming and DVD rental services, however, they thought it would be a good idea to divide them by creating Qwikster. The idea was to make two different websites for these services, Netflix for streaming and Qwikster for DVD rental.
This would mean that costumers would have to create two different accounts for these services and also have two different subscription plans, which would lead to a high total price. After receiving harsh criticism, the re-branding was immediately shelved. To lure in more customers McDonald once added Mighty Wings to their menu. But this new addition failed to succeed. It is believed that the reason for this flop was price, insufficient taste and the appearance wasn't appetizing enough.
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