Jacob Lodwick (born July 25, 1981) is an American

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, serial

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and

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, best known as co-founder of

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Education and early bio

Lodwick was born and raised in

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and attended college at the

Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional ...

Biography

Lodwick was the initial web developer for

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and the resulting Connected Ventures in 2004. 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

was acquired by

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's IAC/Interactive Corp, and Lodwick was fired in late 2007. After departing Vimeo in 2007, Lodwick went on to create and serve as the president of the Normative Music Company. In late 2009, Lodwick shut down the site, citing inexperience and lack of devotion. Lodwick subsequently worked as an independent creative engineer, launching Pummelvision, 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. Today Lodwick serves as CEO of the software compan
Keezy
In the years since Vimeo's sale to IAC, Lodwick has invested in other technology startups including

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and

Makerbot MakerBot Industries, LLC is an American desktop 3D printer manufacturer company headquartered in New York City. It was founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach "Hoeken" Smith to build on the early progress of the RepRap Proje ...

Personal

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

References

External links

Official Website
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