She agreed to invest $100,000 in The Khan Academy. After two months he got a text message from Ann which read

“At Aspen...hundreds of people in audience...Bill Gates on stage, talking about you.”

He had not even came out of this pleasant shock that about a week later he was called to Seattle to meet the second richest person on earth. The meeting was on August 22. Very nervous, he was waiting for Bill Gates in a conference room, when a minute later he walked in and was standing behind him. Khan expresses, “Yeah, just another human being. I spent the next 15 minutes talking about what I thought the Khan Academy could do and how we would do it.” He asked him a few questions and then said simply, "This is great."

Gates becoming fan of this innovative man is reflected in his words which were published in Fortune Magazine 2 days after the meeting.