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Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman at the after party for the Opening Night Film "The Public" Presented by Belvedere Vodka during the 33rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival at Paseo Nuevo on... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
Sep 6, 2021 · Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin After falling in love with the first Apple Mac computer in 1984, Lynda Weinman found a new career: using the new technology to teach web graphics. She...
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Jul 25, 2021 · Lynda Weinman is married to Bruce Heavin, who co-founded the online education site Lynda.com with her. Lynda.com was acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion earlier this year.
Jul 24, 2013 · At the recent Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, the husband-and-wife team of the online video-tutorial site Lynda.com, were the aging rock stars...
- What Is Lynda.Com?
- Innovation and The Triple Win
- Beginnings
- Foray Into Retail
- A Passion For Learning Becomes A Passion For Teaching
- From Teacher to Author
- Taking A Gamble
- Baptism by Fire
- Dot Com Crash
So what’s attracting top institutions, corporations, and millions of consumers? Undisputed value. Lynda.com offers over 1,500 high-quality video courses delivered by well-vetted instructors for a monthly access fee of $25 (no, there are no zeroes missing). That subscription price has remained unchanged since 2002. Users can cancel their account at ...
To understand the revolution that Lynda.com created, one has to understand what came before. Prior to Lynda.com the standard way to learn about web technologies was via in-person workshops, books, and courses. In-person instruction is still widely available, but pricey. It’s an option more suitable for advanced professionals or corporations with sp...
Seated in front of an audience at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California, Lynda and co-founder Bruce Heavin told the story of their lives and business success. Both have an easy-going and approachable air about them. Sitting catecorner to Lynda, and wearing faded jeans with unlaced khaki sneakers, Bruce leans back as Lynda begins. Dresse...
After graduating from college, Weinman became a buyer for a store and then opened her own retail establishment, Vertigo, with locations on Melrose and Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. “My own store had a lot of artistic elements to it,” she recalls. “I sold jewelry and clothing and just things that I like.” She became an “arbiter of taste” and cred...
Another trend in Weinman’s life that helped to shape her business was her passion for learning and for teaching herself. “I had a boyfriend who had worked on Star Wars [1977] and Tron[1982] and he had an animation studio,” Weinman recalls. She began assisting him as a camera operator and animator and worked to learn everything she could about the b...
Another watershed moment came when Weinman was asked to write on the subject. “I had never thought that I was good in school in English,” she explains. “I was very insecure about my writing. It was really kind of scary to me.” But instead of settling down into an “I can’t” mentality, she chose to push forward past those doubts and take action. Maga...
Lynda became a world-renowned expert in graphic design following the success of her books. Subsequent demand for her training led to an exciting, but grueling, international travel schedule. “It was hard on me. It was hard on my family,” she recalls. Bruce’s creative imagination lit up as he pondered how the problem could be solved. Why not rent so...
While Weinman had some retail experience under her belt, neither she nor Bruce had a strong business background. “We got thrown into the fire. We had to figure it out.” They raced to fill necessary positions and hire a bookkeeper. She and Heavin continued to write books; many were translated into other languages. Weinman wound up authoring 16 web d...
The business took a big hit in 2000 with the dot com crash, followed by 9/11 a year later. A lot of their clients had been from dot com startups. “All their money dried up, funding for training dried up,” Weinman recalls. Lynda.com soon was without a travel budget. Again, a door slammed shut, and the couple looked for an open window. “We started to...
Bruce Heavin is the cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer of lynda.comoverseeing its visual branding and style. An acclaimed illustrator and designer, Bruce helped broaden the company scope to include photography and graphic design.A graduate of Art Center College of Design, he has created graphics for national magazines and major media companies.
Feb 14, 2024 · This 10,720-square-foot concrete structure that Southern California–based Donaldson + Partners created for art collectors Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman in Montecito, California, is big, a little odd, and full of curious secrets that slowly reveal themselves over time.
