Forbes

87. LYNDA WEINMAN

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$325 million  SOURCE: Online education AGE: 66 • RESIDENCE: Montecito, CA SELF-MADE SCORE: 8

Web-design teacher Weinman sold Lynda .com, an online-learning website, to LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 billion in cash and stock—and left before Microsoft purchased LinkedIn the following year. She has co-produced more than 20 independen­t films, including the 2020 Netflix documentar­y The Social Dilemma, about the dangers of social media. Weinman’s latest endeavor is 3D-printed pottery.

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