A decade ago, Sal Khan envisioned using technology to tailor education to individual and community needs.
“It’s all about simplicity,” says Tilt Co-Founder and CEO James Beshara. “If you’re going to build your own business, try to find simplifiers, not complicators.” He describes how he learned this lesson through his first startup, dvelo.org, a site for crowdfunding loans and donations to aid organizations in developing countries.