Loïc Le Meur

Loïc Le Meur (born 14 July 1972) is a French entrepreneur and blogger. He worked as Executive Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA ) for the software vendor Six Apart after this French Le Meur Blog Ublog had bought in July 2004. The end of 2006 Le Meur became a well-known supporter of the French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and joined Sarkozy's campaign team as a consultant for Internet-related matters.

Career

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

At the same time he founded Rapid Site France, he made the leading web hosting for small businesses in France. In 1999 he sold Rapid Site 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 of its founder Breton Stéphane Le Solliec. After Ublog grew under his leadership, he sold it in 2004 to Six Apart, where he was appointed in connection to executive vice president. The post as EVP EMEA he held until March 2007, when he handed it to his long- time business partner Olivier Creiche. Le Meur, however, remains as Honorary Chair of Six Apart Europe the company.

He then founded the company Seesmic. For the first round of financing he could find well-known investors, including Michael Arrington TechCrunchs, AOL co-founder Steve Case and Ron Conway. The thirteen -member investors round, primarily consisting of business angels, provided a total of $ 6,000,000 available. Seesmic should become a kind of video Twitter. After initial success, the team at Le Meur realized that the growth stagnated. 2009 Le Meur announced a drastic change of the service offered towards a Twitter client called Seesmic Desktop.

Blogging

Le Meurs personal weblog is one of the most far-reaching blogs in France. He is also known for hosting the LesBlogs blog conferences in Paris, which was later renamed to LeWeb. Since 2004 he has been part of the team that is behind the official World Economic Forum Blog.

In December 2005, he led the first podcast interview with a French political leader, the Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. While Agoravox, a French citizen- journalism site, the interview declared as " infotainment " because " asked Le Meur questions about softball had " and criticized the podcast interview as a free publicity campaign for Sarkozy, Le Meur replied that he was not on was confrontational and that the interview was only made ​​an effort Sarkozy to boost its brand awareness in the younger population. Then Le Meur interviewed several other politicians in other podcast episodes, including Dominique Strauss- Kahn and François Bayrou. In September 2006, he announced his support for Sarkozy in the French presidential election of 2007. François Bayrou, Nicolas Sarkozy and Israeli politician Shimon Peres spoke then on, organized by Le Meur Paris LeWeb3 Conference in December 2006. Having Sarkozy had won the election and flew on his first official visit to the White House in Washington in November 2007, he offered Le Meur to accompany him.