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Loïc Le Meur
serial entrepreneur & blogger
loiclemeur.com
Loic is the founder and CEO of Seesmic that is behind one of the most popular Twitter application Seesmic Desktop and Twhirl, that helps stay in touch with your friends on Twitter and Facebook and build your community.
Loic also founded and hosts the #1 tech event in Europe, LeWeb.net, with his wife Geraldine. LeWeb gathers together 2000 entrepreneurs from 40 countries in December every year.
Prior to Seesmic and LeWeb, Loic started several other businesses such as Six Apart Europe, RapidSite, a web hosting service (acquired by France Telecom in 1999) as well as B2L, an interactive agency in 1999 (acquired by BBDO).
Recently, Business Week Magazine named Loic one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web. Loic was also named “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. He advises the World Economic Forum as well as covers the Annual Summit every year in Davos. Originally from the South of France, Loic lives in San Francisco, California and has three boys.
Loïc Le Meur on Wikipedia
Top 10 French blogs - Technorati - Edelman Europe blog survey in 2006
Web presence
What is Loïc doing ? - Twitter
Loïc Le Meur blog - english
Loïc Le Meur blog - french
Flickr photos
Vpod.tv loiclemeur videos
LeWeb3 conference, photos
Books
2007 - Blogs & Podcasts - Dunod
2005 - Blogs pour les Pros - Dunod
oh and occasional articles: "Minding your own business. French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur offers seven golden rules - for doing nothing", The Guardian
Speaker
-to get an idea, see me at Google Zeitgest 2006 on blogging and the amateur revolution
-some public appeareances
Politics
I have podcasted and backed President Nicolas Sarkozy during the 2007 presidential campaign and advised him on Internet related topics, I also blogged I would vote for him on September 10, 2006. I also joined his campaign team. That does not prevent me from having fantastic friends from with different political views and very interesting conversations with them. It just means being very transparent with my blog readers. My political role or ambitions end here. A controversy started when I invited the three main presidential candidates at my conference LeWeb3. Two of them came.
Some press articles, (more)
-French politics go surreal, Reuters, Red Herring, 2007
-Politicians Woo Internet Crowd In Paris, Red Herring, 2006
-France's mysterious embrace of blogs (cover page and following of the IHT), 2006
-France's passion for Web logs is beginning to alter the political and business climate, Business Week, 2005
-"At the Davos Conference, Small Fry With Big Dreams", by Erik Portanger, Wall Street Journal, 2004
-"With bloggers inside, Davos secrets are out", by Thomas Crampton, International Herald Tribune, 2004
-"Le Meur is a young man in a hurry who walks fast, talks fast, and starts businesses fast" in "The next French Revolution", by Cait Murphy, CNN, 2000.
Hobbies
Kite-Surfing
Running (best semi-marathon time 1h36)
Skiing
Education
Graduated in 1996 from HEC business school
Contact:
loicdirect AT gmail DOT com
snail mail
Loïc Le Meur
Seesmic
365 Vermont Street
San Francisco, CA
USA
Pictures, see also thousands on Flickr
In a conference in Madrid, by Alvy, higher def
Running the Boulogne semi-marathon (higher def)
With Shimon Peres and Yossi Vardi at my conference LeWeb3, by SachaQS, high res
At LeWeb3
With some unknown bloggers Hugh, Robert and Doc at Reboot in Copenhagen by geofones
At Kinnernet in Israel, high, by Heiko
At LeWeb3 by Feuillu, high
On Stage with President Nicolas Sarkozy, during the 2007 Campaign. photo: Marco Pirrone
