Sue Khim is an American education

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. She is the co-founder and current CEO of Brilliant.org, an educational platform and

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that features problems and courses in

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

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, and

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. She also co-founded edtech start-up Alltuition, which helped students find low-cost college loans and assisted with financial aid forms. In 2012, she was named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 in education.

Career

Originally from

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

, Khim immigrated with her family to the United States when she was a baby. She grew up in Chicago and attended public schools. After studying mathematics for 3 years, Khim left the

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to start her own company, Alltuition, which sought to simplify the process of obtaining financial aid for students. Khim co-founded Alltuition with 2 others and raised a seed round of funding. Eventually, Khim and company received venture funding and decided to work on something else to expand education for students, which led to the creation of Brilliant.org. The Alltuition team became Brilliant in October 2012. Brilliant has grown to be an online community of over 4 million users where people learn math and science from each other. Khim has accounted for the sexism and racism she has faced several times. In 2022, Khim was one of four AAPI leaders highlighted by

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and commented "We replaced a Victorian education system from 300 years ago with a fun, vibrant world."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khim, Sue Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American chief executives of education-related organizations American women chief executives American people of South Korean descent American women company founders American company founders 21st-century American women