Born: 24 January 1955, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women founder Allison Tyra’s book The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40.
Lynda Weinman’s first business venture closed within four years. At 23, she borrowed $20,000 from her grandfather to open a new wave and punk store called Vertigo on L.A.’s Sunset Strip. Fortunately, she would turn her creative pursuits to the new and rapidly growing digital industries, publishing one of the first web design textbooks in 1996 when she was 41. It was one of more than 20 that she would publish in the field. The year before, she started the online learning platform lynda.com with her husband as a way to communicate with her web design students. Two decades later, the couple sold lynda.com to LinkedIn for $1.5 billion in 2015.
Weinman has also worked across a range of digital artistic media, having previously worked in visual effects on films like Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Robo Cop 2 (1990). She also worked as an animator and special effects artist. She co-founded the Flashforward Conferences and the Flash Film Festival and has taught at the Art Center College of Design, the American Film Institute and at San Francisco State University. Weinman has served as a producer on dozens of projects, including 2018’s Emmy-nominated The Tale. She also creates 3D-printed sculptures, exhibiting them in local galleries, as well as serving on various boards.