Bruce Heavin
person on 1 show · 5 statements across 1 episodes
On the record as a speaker too: Bruce Heavin across every show, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
5 statements about Bruce Heavin, every show
LinkedIn never contacted Lynda Weinman during her post-acquisition consulting agreement
“Yeah, I mean, they had a consulting agreement with me, not with Bruce. I think it was for three months. They never once called me.”
Heavin: Employee departures surged at Lynda.com after raising venture capital
“It made working there a lot less interesting, and I could tell you I could count on one hand how many people chose to leave before we took money. But after we took money and the business started changing because of investors, because of this pressure, we had m…”
Venture capital shifted Lynda.com to merciless EBITDA optimization
“And I think my fear was realized because it took away our passion and focus on education, and it drove it down Just a pure business path, and decisions were merciless. It was just about how to gain EBITDA, and it made working there a lot less fun.”
Weinman realized her hired CEO held more power than the founders
“And I realized very late in the game that the CEO had more power than I did. And more power than Bruce did.”
Heavin: Data analytics cannot successfully drive educational content programming
“You can't do all this based on data analytics to understand what you need to do for programming of content for learning. But I kind of always had this belief you had to be a little bit of a bookie and a fortune teller. And the data analytics is very important,…”