Mark Zuckerberg on Taking Risks and Finding Talented People

So imagine you’re Usain Bolt. You’re like six and a half feet tall. You have a couple Olympic medals—no biggie. You show up to your final Olympic race, and your only opponent is a tortoise. For some reason, he has gold medals around his neck. He can talk …

I’m Sal Khan, founder of the not-for-profit Khan Academy. As you probably know, we have a big mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We know that the most important people in that mission are you, the teacher. That’s why, …

Pause the video and try to add these two rational expressions. Okay, I’m assuming you’ve had a go at it. Now we can work through this together. So, the first thing that you might have hit when you tried to do it is you realize that they have different de…

We’re told that a particle moves along the curve (x^2 y^2 = 16), so that the x-coordinate is changing at a constant rate of -2 units per minute. What is the rate of change, in units per minute, of the particle’s y-coordinate when the particle is at the po…

Generally speaking, it’s not the case that our hierarchies of competence are reasonably functional and not only are they functional, they’re valuable. We need to know who the competent people are, and we need to reward them. Even more importantly, we need…

What’s up guys, it’s Graeme here. So let’s face it, for anyone who’s watched the market over these last two months, we all know that absolutely nothing makes sense anymore. Like, if we get bad news, the stock market rallies because the news wasn’t that ba…