Loïc Le Meur

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Loïc Le Meur (born July 14, 1972 ) is a French entrepreneur and blogger . He worked as Executive Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for software company Six Apart after it bought Le Meurs' French blog Ublog in July 2004. In late 2006, Le Meur became a well-known supporter of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and joined Sarkozy's campaign team as an advisor on internet-related affairs.

Life

In 1996 Loïc Le Meur founded his first company, the B2L interactive agency.

At the same time he founded RapidSite France, which he made the leading web host for small businesses in France. In 1999 he sold RapidSite to France Télécom , where it became part of Wanadoo .

A year later, in 2000, he founded the application service provider Tekora.

In October 2003 he bought the French weblog hosting company Ublog from its founder, Breton Stéphane Le Solliec. After Ublog grew under his leadership, he sold it to Six Apart in 2004 , where he was subsequently appointed Executive Vice President. He held the post as EPP EMEA until March 2007, when he handed it over to his long-term business partner Olivier Creich. Le Meur will remain with the company as Honorary Chair of Six Apart Europe .

He then founded the Seesmic company. He was able to find well-known investors for the first round of financing, including TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, AOL co-founder Steve Case and Ron Conway . The group of thirteen investors, consisting primarily of business angels , provided a total of 6 million dollars. Seesmic was to become a kind of video twitter . After initial success, Le Meur's team found that growth was stagnating. In 2009 Le Meur then announced a drastic change in the service offered to a Twitter client called Seesmic Desktop .

In 2015 he founded Leade.rs, a communication platform for keynote speakers.

Blogging

Le Meurs personal weblog is one of the blogs with the widest reach in France. He is also known for hosting the LesBlogs blog conferences in Paris, which were later renamed LeWeb . Since 2004 he has been part of the team behind the official World Economic Forum weblog.

In December 2005 he conducted the first podcast interview with a top French politician, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy . While AgoraVox , a French citizen journalism website, labeled the interview “infotainment” because “Le Meur asked questions about softball” and criticized the podcast interview as a free publicity campaign for Sarkozy, Le Meur replied that he was not up A confrontational course and that the interview was merely a result of Sarkozy's efforts to increase his profile among the younger population. Le Meur then interviewed several other politicians in other podcast episodes, including Dominique Strauss-Kahn and François Bayrou . In September 2006 he then announced his support for Sarkozy in the 2007 French presidential election. François Bayrou, Nicolas Sarkozy and the Israeli politician Shimon Peres then spoke at the LeWeb3 conference in Paris organized by Le Meur in December 2006. After Sarkozy had won the election and flew in November 2007 for his first official visit to the White House in Washington, he offered Le Meur to accompany him.

Fonts

• with Laurence Beauvais: Blogs pour les pros , Dunod, 2005 ISBN 2-10-049395-7
• with Laurence Beauvais: La révolution podcast , Dunod, 2006 ISBN 2-10-050059-7

Web links

• Le Meur's personal blog in English and in French
• Six Apart
• Interview with Loïc Le Meur (video)
• Interview with Loïc Le Meur about his new company Seesmic (video)

Individual evidence

1. ^ EWeek - Six Apart Hires New CEO, Nets European Bloggers , July 14, 2004.
2. ↑ Nicolas Sarkozy's Campaign Team ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ For France's bloggers, c'est la guerre . ( Memento of January 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Guardian Unlimited, 15. January 2007.
4. ↑ Interview with Loïc Le Meur. 01.net, April 15, 2005.
5. ↑ France Telecom Acquires Rapid Site France. internetnews.com, December 22, 1999.
6. ↑ Ublog, the aventure blog de Loïc Le Meur . Le Journal du Net, November 25, 2003.
7. ^ Six Apart Blogs in Europe . internetnews.com, July 15, 2004.
8. ^ After Six Apart, what should I do? ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Loic Le Meur Weblog, March 27, 2007. 
9. ↑ How I started Seesmic and raised $ 6 million . ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Loic Le Meur Weblog, February 14, 2008. 
10. ↑ Seesmic changes direction and Loic Le Meur gives a brutally honest assessment . The Next Web, June 26, 2009.
11. ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/leade-rs
12. ^ Website of the LeWeb3 conference
13. ↑ Forumblog.org
14. ↑ Loïc Le Meur: Nicolas Sarkozy podcasté pour la première fois ( Memento of the original of November 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 22, 2005. 
15. ↑ Sarkozy sur mon iPod? Non merci! AgoraVox, December 24, 2005
16. ^ Carol Matlack: The Podcast Shaking Up French Politics . In: BusinessWeek , December 27, 2005.
17. ↑ Loïc Le Meur: Je voterai pour Niclas Sarkozy ( Memento of the original of October 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . September 10, 2006. 
18. ↑ Jennifer L. Schenker: Politicians Woo Internet Crowd In Paris . In: Red Herring , December 12, 2006.
19. ↑ Loïc Le Meur: France is back! ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 10, 2007.