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Monday Motivation: Lynda Weinman

Monday Motivation: Lynda Weinman

Aged 60, she sold her startup for $1.5 BILLION

Apr 10, 2023
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Monday Motivation: Lynda Weinman
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There aren’t many founders who can say they sold their business for $1.5 BILLION. Let alone a woman.

Let alone a woman in her sixties…

But that’s what Lynda Weinman did when she sold Lynda.com to LinkedIn in 2015. I had the honour of interviewing Lynda the following year for my book Female Innovators at Work and I wanted to share some of the lessons I learned from her.

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