Jake Lodwick

Jacob Lodwick (born July 25, 1981) is an American software engineer, businessman and investor, best known as co-founder of Vimeo.^[1]

Jake Lodwick
Lodwick in 2005
Born	Jacob Lodwick (1981-07-25) July 25, 1981 (age 44) Baltimore, Maryland, US
Occupation(s)	Entrepreneur, software engineer, investor
Known for	Co-founding Vimeo

Education and early life

Lodwick was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and attended college at the Rochester Institute of Technology. While attending the Rochester Institute of Technology, Lodwick would contribute to the arts and satire publication Gracies Dinnertime Theatre laying the groundwork for his interest in collegiate-based humor.^[2][3][4]

Biography

Lodwick was the initial web developer for CollegeHumor and the resulting Connected Ventures in 2004.^[5] 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 Vimeo was acquired by Barry Diller's IAC/Interactive Corp, and Lodwick was fired in late 2007.^[6]

After departing from Vimeo in 2007, Lodwick went on to create and be president of the Normative Music Company. In late 2009, Lodwick shut down the site, citing inexperience and lack of devotion.^[7]

Lodwick subsequently worked as an independent creative engineer, launching Pummelvision,^[8] 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.

As of 2019^[update], Lodwick is CEO of the software company Keezy.^[9]

In the years since Vimeo's sale to IAC, Lodwick has invested in other technology startups including Tumblr and Makerbot.^[10]