Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

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 published a best-selling book on the topic, and then—along with her husband Bruce Heavin—decided to host a web design workshop in the small town of Ojai, California. When the class sold out, the partners realized their straightforward approach to digital design was in high demand. Despite having no business background, Lynda and Bruce continued to expand their vision, eventually offering instructional videos on a range of topics through their streaming platform, Lynda.com. In 2015, the company sold to LinkedIn for 1.5 billion dollars. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.0	When you leave home, can you ever really go back?
0:12.0	Made a version!
0:13.0	Soccer legend Leo Messi and I both left Argentina as kids.
0:17.0	You know you're that piece of a puzzle that doesn't fit anywhere.
0:20.0	To so many immigrants, football is a way to reconnect.
0:23.0	Listen to the last cop in the embedded podcast feed
0:26.0	to hear the latest collaboration from MPR and Fuduro Studios.
0:31.0	I cannot imagine that in 2001, the online videos really took off
0:36.0	because people had dial up.
0:38.0	It was really hard to see videos on the internet.
0:41.0	Am I wrong about that?
0:42.0	No, you were totally right. We were way too early.
0:45.0	And the first year, I mean, I remember we took a poll among the office
0:50.0	like in a jar, people put the number of subscribers that they thought
0:55.0	in our first month that we would get.
0:57.0	No one guessed low enough.
0:59.0	From MPR, it's how I built this.
1:08.0	A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists,
1:11.0	and the stories behind the movements they built.
1:14.0	I'm Guy Ross, and on the show today,
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