Google's First Employee Departs

redletterdave writes "Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, will leave the search giant for Khan Academy, an online education portal based in Mountain View, Calif. Silverstein had been with Google shortly after it first launched in the garage of Susan Wojcicki, a friend of both Page and Brin, in September 1998. He had helped Brin and Page develop infrastructure when Google was just a Stanford grad school project, but when he officially joined the company, Silverstein became its technology director. The Khan Academy, where Silverstein is heading next, is a not-for-profit organization that aspires to change the education industry by providing free 'world-class education to anyone anywhere.' Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is an enormous fan of the service, telling CNN that he uses it with his kids."

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Free advice for big fan of free learning!

[migla]

Dear Mr Gates,

I have noticed how fond you are of the excellent efforts of the Khan Academy to disseminate knowledge to anyone for free.

I'm very excited to have found two more projects that should really be up your alley. You will probably want to donate billions to them right away!

They are very much in line with what the Khan Academy is trying to accomplish, but they are working at another perspective of knowledge.

They are about fascilitating the dissemination, creation and construction of knowledge and information on computing hardware:

http://gnu.org/

http://linux.com/

They are Free and Open instructions for computers (machines to process data with). With these free of cost and Free as in freedom software projects and the excellent efforts of the Khan Academy, all the children of Earth (with access to computing hardware - that is yet another avenue you could look into) can really get a leg up.

Sincerelly,
Dr Pointer-Outer-Of-Obvious-Ironies-Dinkelspiel