Loïc Le Meur

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.

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.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Loïc Le Meur.

• Le Meur's personal blog in English and in French
• Interview with Loic Le Meur video
• Interview with Loic Le Meur about his new company Seesmic video