Why LinkedIn bought Lynda.com last year: Train users for jobs 'at scale'

VB EVENT: LinkedIn’s head of consumer products Ryan Roslansky, speaking on stage at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit conference, explained how the company’s Lynda.com acquisition could allow it to redefine online education “at scale across every city and every skill.” Roslansky told Recode’s Kurt Wagner [emphasis ours]: On the learning side, specifically, there is fundamentally a flaw in the education ecosystem that […]