Loïc Le Meur | |
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Born | France | 14 July 1972
Alma mater | HEC Paris |
Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, blogger |
Loïc Le Meur (born 14 July 1972) is a French entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004. [1] In late 2006 Le Meur became a public backer of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and joined Sarkozy's campaign team as an advisor on Internet-related topics. [2] [3]
In 1996, Loïc Le Meur founded his first company, interactive agency B2L[ citation needed], after graduating from HEC Paris. [4]
He also founded RapidSite France with his wife [5] a web hosting company for small businesses in France. [6] In 1999, he sold RapidSite to France Télécom where it became part of Wanadoo. [7]
In 2000, he founded application service provider Tekora. [6]
In 2003, he got involved with French weblog hosting company Ublog which he purchased from its founder, fellow Breton Stéphane Le Solliec in October 2003. [8] He then grew Ublog and merged the company with Six Apart where he became Executive Vice President in 2004. [9] He held his role as EVP EMEA until March 2007 when he handed his job over to long-time business partner Olivier Creiche. Le Meur remains Honorary Chair of Six Apart Europe. [10]
In 2015, he founded leade.rs, a platform for keynote speakers.[ citation needed] In 2019, leade.rs was acquired by Animoca. Le Meur joined Animoca as a venture partner to assist in growth and expansion opportunities. [11]
In 2004 Le Meur became part of the team behind the official World Economic Forum blog. [12]
Since 2004, Le Meur has organized a conference focused on blogging and the web world with Géraldine Le Meur, his wife until recently. [13] In December 2006, he managed to get Shimon Peres, Nicolas Sarkozy, and French politician François Bayrou on stage at LeWeb '03. [14] More than 2,600 people from 60 different countries attended in 2010. [15] Approximately 3200 attended in 2014. [16]
In 2007, Le Meur moved to San Francisco to launch a new startup named Seesmic. [17]
Seesmic was initially focused on the creation of an online community of video bloggers. Following the 2008 economic crisis Seesmic's became a social media client company. In January 2010, Seesmic acquired Ping.fm [18] and allowed its users to update simultaneously more than 50 different social media statuses. In February 2011, Seesmic received funding from Salesforce.com and Softbank, bringing total funding to $16 million. [19] In September 2012, Seesmic was acquired by HootSuite. [20] [21]
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Loïc Le Meur | |
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![]() Le Meur at the 2014 LeWeb Conference | |
Born | France | 14 July 1972
Alma mater | HEC Paris |
Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, blogger |
Loïc Le Meur (born 14 July 1972) is a French entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004. [1] In late 2006 Le Meur became a public backer of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and joined Sarkozy's campaign team as an advisor on Internet-related topics. [2] [3]
In 1996, Loïc Le Meur founded his first company, interactive agency B2L[ citation needed], after graduating from HEC Paris. [4]
He also founded RapidSite France with his wife [5] a web hosting company for small businesses in France. [6] In 1999, he sold RapidSite to France Télécom where it became part of Wanadoo. [7]
In 2000, he founded application service provider Tekora. [6]
In 2003, he got involved with French weblog hosting company Ublog which he purchased from its founder, fellow Breton Stéphane Le Solliec in October 2003. [8] He then grew Ublog and merged the company with Six Apart where he became Executive Vice President in 2004. [9] He held his role as EVP EMEA until March 2007 when he handed his job over to long-time business partner Olivier Creiche. Le Meur remains Honorary Chair of Six Apart Europe. [10]
In 2015, he founded leade.rs, a platform for keynote speakers.[ citation needed] In 2019, leade.rs was acquired by Animoca. Le Meur joined Animoca as a venture partner to assist in growth and expansion opportunities. [11]
In 2004 Le Meur became part of the team behind the official World Economic Forum blog. [12]
Since 2004, Le Meur has organized a conference focused on blogging and the web world with Géraldine Le Meur, his wife until recently. [13] In December 2006, he managed to get Shimon Peres, Nicolas Sarkozy, and French politician François Bayrou on stage at LeWeb '03. [14] More than 2,600 people from 60 different countries attended in 2010. [15] Approximately 3200 attended in 2014. [16]
In 2007, Le Meur moved to San Francisco to launch a new startup named Seesmic. [17]
Seesmic was initially focused on the creation of an online community of video bloggers. Following the 2008 economic crisis Seesmic's became a social media client company. In January 2010, Seesmic acquired Ping.fm [18] and allowed its users to update simultaneously more than 50 different social media statuses. In February 2011, Seesmic received funding from Salesforce.com and Softbank, bringing total funding to $16 million. [19] In September 2012, Seesmic was acquired by HootSuite. [20] [21]
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