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Lynda.com secured massive enterprise adoption entirely through organic employee demand
“A lot of people who taught web design and Photoshop were using our courses, and they were bringing it into their schools and into their companies, so we'd be installed in all of Apple, all of Adobe, all of Microsoft, all of Google, and the employees were start…”
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…”
Bruce Heavin: Adobe and Martha Stewart sent employees to Lynda.com workshops
“And we were having Adobe sending their employees to us. Martha Stewart was sending employees to us.”
Early Lynda.com sold video tapes via mail-in checks without e-commerce
“We had no e-commerce. We had a thing on the website that said, send your check and money order to PO Box in Ojai, California, and then we had notified them by email when we got their payment. So people were sending their checks and money orders to our PO Box i…”