Jake Lodwick
{{short description|Software engineer, serial entrepreneur and investor}}
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| birth_name = Jacob Lodwick
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| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, US
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| known_for = Co-founding Vimeo
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| occupation = Entrepreneur, software engineer, investor
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Jacob Lodwick (born July 25, 1981) is an American software engineer, businessman and investor, best known as co-founder of Vimeo.https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/19/3783616/animate-your-memes-with-vimeo-creators-new-project-moonbase {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
Education and early life
Lodwick was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and attended college at the Rochester Institute of Technology. While attending the Rochester Institute of Technology, Lodwick would contribute to the arts and satire publication Gracies Dinnertime Theatre laying the groundwork for his interest in collegiate-based humor.{{cite web |title=Sleepy |url=https://hellskitchen.org/gdt/PDF/Volume19/05.Sleepy.pdf |website=Gracies Dinnertime Theatre |access-date=21 February 2025 |pages=1 |date=2001}}{{cite web |title=NyQuil |url=https://hellskitchen.org/gdt/PDF/Volume22/09.NyQuil.pdf |website=Gracies Dinnertime Theatre |access-date=21 February 2025 |pages=Cover, 15, back cover |date=2002}}changed
Biography
Lodwick was the initial web developer for CollegeHumor and the resulting Connected Ventures in 2004.{{cite news|last=Mead|first=Rebecca|title=Funny Boys: Success and City|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact2?currentPage=all|accessdate=6 March 2014|newspaper=New Yorker|date=24 January 2005}} When he was a part of the founding team at Connected Ventures, Lodwick co-created Vimeo and came up with the name, a portmanteau of video and me. In 2006 Vimeo was acquired by Barry Diller's IAC/Interactive Corp, and Lodwick was fired in late 2007.{{cite web|last=Arrington|first=Michael|title=Vimeo Founder Fired, Does A Bong Hit|url=https://techcrunch.com/2007/11/30/vimeo-founder-fired-does-a-bong-hit/|accessdate=5 March 2014|newspaper=TechCrunch|date=30 November 2007}}
After departing from Vimeo in 2007, Lodwick went on to create and be president of the Normative Music Company. In late 2009, Lodwick shut down the site, citing inexperience and lack of devotion.{{cite web|last=Lodwick|first=Jake|title=Entrepreneur Bio|url=http://jakelodwick.com/entrepreneur|publisher=Jake Lodwick|accessdate=21 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326195317/http://jakelodwick.com/entrepreneur|archive-date=26 March 2017|url-status=dead}}
Lodwick subsequently worked as an independent creative engineer, launching Pummelvision,{{cite web|last=Tsotsis|first=Alexia|title=Pummelvision: What Your Life Would Look Like If It Flashed Before Your Eyes|url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/23/pummelvision/|accessdate=5 March 2014|newspaper=TechCrunch|date=23 December 2010}} software that assembles one's photos into stories with music. Pummelvision was inspired by a photo import feature which showed the current photo being imported.
{{asof|2019}}, Lodwick is CEO of the software company Keezy.{{Cite web |url=https://keezy.com/ |title=Keezy |access-date=2022-07-12 |archive-date=2019-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104212915/https://keezy.com/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}
In the years since Vimeo's sale to IAC, Lodwick has invested in other technology startups including Tumblr and Makerbot.{{cite web|last=Shontell|first=Alyson|title=Controversial Startup Guy Jake Lodwick Has Had Two Massive Startup Exits In The Past Month|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jakob-lodwick-invested-in-ny-startups-makerbot-and-tumblr-2013-6|accessdate=5 March 2014|newspaper=Business Insider|date=June 2013}}
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External links
- [http://jakelodwick.com/ Official website]
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Category:American computer businesspeople