Loïc Le Meur
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Loïc Le Meur at the 2014 LeWeb Conference
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Born | France |
14 July 1972
Alma mater | HEC Paris |
Occupation | 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]
Career
In 1996, Loïc Le Meur founded his first company, interactive agency B2L.[citation needed]
He also founded RapidSite France with his wife [4] a web hosting company for small businesses in France.[5] In 1999, he sold RapidSite to France Télécom where it became part of Wanadoo.[6]
In 2000, he founded application service provider Tekora.[5]
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.[7] He then grew Ublog and merged the company with Six Apart where he became Executive Vice President in 2004.[8] 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.[9]
Blogging & LeWeb
In 2004 Le Meur became part of the team behind the official World Economic Forum blog.[10]
Since 2004, he co-founded and organized a conference focused on blogging and the web world with Geraldine Le Meur, his wife until recently.[11] In December 2006, he managed to get Shimon Peres, Nicolas Sarkozy, and French politician François Bayrou on stage at LeWeb '03.[12] More than 2,600 people from 60 different countries came in 2010.[13] About 3200 came for the 2014 session '14 [14]
Seesmic
In 2007, Le Meur moved to San Francisco to launch a new startup named Seesmic.[15]
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 [16] 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.[17] In September 2012, Seesmic was acquired by HootSuite[18] for nothing.[19]
Bibliography
- Blogs pour les pros by Loïc Le Meur and Laurence Beauvais, Dunod ISBN 2-10-049395-7, November 2005
- La révolution podcast by Loïc Le Meur and Laurence Beauvais, Dunod ISBN 2-10-050059-7, September 2006.
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