Lorenz Bogaert, born 1976, is a

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serial Internet entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Massive Media, a social media company owning digital brands such as

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Netlog Netlog (formerly known as Facebox and Bingbox) was a Belgian social networking service targeted at the global youth demographic. On Netlog, members could create their own web page, meet new people, chat, play games, share videos and post blogs. ...

and

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and social dating community

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. Lorenz lives in

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Education

Bogaert studied law and management at the universities of Brussels (BE), Fribourg (CH) and Namur (BE).

Career

In 2012 Massive Media was acquired by

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, now part of internet holding company IAC. Bogaert is also co-founder of

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portfolio application Delta, which was acquired by

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in 2019 and he was involved in launching

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scale-up Rydoo, acquired by

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in 2017. Another company founded by Bogaert is

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scale-up Realo of which he is executive chairman. In 2019 he was listed as the 4th most important

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in Belgium by

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. Bogaert was awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008.

References

External links

Lorenz Bogaert profile
at TEDxBrussels, 2011
How Netlog Leaps Language Barriers in the Wall Street Journal

Why Belgium is an innovation hotspot
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