linkedin buys lynda.com for $1.5 BILLION!
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I think this was a very smart purchase. Even though LI's customer supports sucks hard and their policies are questionable (charging for basic searches now), I do think they'll figure it out and they will only grow.
Lynda will add a feature that younger people will pounce on. Look at all those "endorsements" that are mostly meaningless...until you go to hire someone, then you look. Lynda will be the same "completed HTML and advance javascript", etc., will be on people's pages now. That makes the investment in Lynda a very cheap way to get real eyes on any courses you complete.
Let's not forget that its profitable, too. Snapchat and co aren't. They may be the next facebook, or they may evaporate, no one knows. I'd buy Lynda for 1.5 vs. Snapchat for 20b (or WhatsApp). No one knows if the advertising revenue model will last forever.