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Lynda Weinman

14 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2021 by Lynda Weinman · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Sep 6, 2021
Assertion Supported
Weinman created Star Trek Mac animatics directly for William Shatner
“I had an assignment to do animatics, an animated storyboard on a Mac, and I worked directly with William Shatner on One of the Star Trek movies, and I had never done anything like that, and I had to build the Starship Enterprise, and I had no idea how to build…”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 16:21 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 1:07:09 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Weinman: web design book became the best-selling in the world
“And it was, at the time, the best-selling web design book in the world, used at every college.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 20:13 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021 negative
Opinion
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.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 1:00:44 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lynda.com generated $1.7 million in revenue in its first year
“In the first year, our revenue was 1.7 million dollars, which to us was just, you know, we'd never imagined.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 30:00 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ZZ Top bought 1,000 Ray-Bans from Lynda Weinman's early boutique
“I had ZZ Top buy, like, a thousand Ray-Ban sunglasses for me one time to give out at concerts.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 11:33 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021 negative
Insight
Weinman: Offering free content is the enemy of a successful business
“You know, we sort of felt that free was the enemy of a successful business.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 38:44 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021 negative
Opinion
Weinman: Competitor Skillsoft did not have my respect, envy, or attention
“I never really thought about them as a competitor, to be honest. They weren't even really on my radar. I did, they didn't have my respect. They didn't have my envy. They didn't have my attention.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 54:11 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lynda Weinman bought the first Apple Macintosh for $2,500 on credit
“I bought it at a, with my May Company credit card for 2500 dollars for the very first Mac, which if I had saved it would be worth, you know, fortune today.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 14:21 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lynda Weinman purchased the lynda.com domain name for just $35
“And sure enough, it was for 35 dollars, so I bought it.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 19:05 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Weinman: Lynda.com was 100% bootstrapped without investor funding
“We had never taken investor money at all. It never, we never, even that word startup just wasn't in the vernacular at that point. I mean, we were really old school. This was a bootstrapped business, 100%.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 35:01 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Weinman: Lynda.com laid off over half its workforce in 2001
“We had to lay off more than half our people.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 35:33 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lynda.com dipped to $1M in revenue and 9 employees at its low point
“Even the year, I think our worst year, We did a little over one million dollars in the year and we had like nine employees.”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 41:58 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Sep 6, 2021 positive
Opinion
Weinman: LinkedIn Was the Perfect Suitor for Lynda.com
“It was not, it didn't feel perfect at the time, but it was the perfect suitor with the perfect business and the perfect time, and even though, you know, they've done something different with it than what we were doing, I know it's been super successful for the…”
Lynda Weinman Sep 6, 2021 ▶ 1:06:27 Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
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