Jakob Lodwick, the co-founder of IAC owned video site Vimeo, left the company today. The reason? Apparently Lodwick didn’t see eye to eye with the IAC brass on creative issues, and specifically had a run in with IAC chief Barry Diller three weeks ago.
That’s not surprising, given the picture Lodwick chose to include with his goodbye post. A source close to Lodwick says “he was let go.”
Lodwick’s girlfriend, Julia Allison (who made a scandal at our August Capital party last summer - see video here), wrote a blog post saying “Dear Jakob, I wish I hadn’t found out you left the company you’ve been with for the last seven years from your blog. Love, Julia.”
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Better finding out from the blog rather than Twitter
This post doesn´t work without details on the scandal.
And pictures, please.
I mean, that video is not the “scandal” wright?
Michael, you left out the 102px-sized, centered “Who Gives a Crap” at the bottom of the post.
Nice toke! How much did he have vested already?
Getting fired from the company he founded has to suck, along with Connected Ventures/College Humor.
Looks like he already pulled the post off his blog.. Thanks for allowing us to share in all of its fantastic joy TC!
So, I read Julia´s post.
Drama 2.0!
More.
Forget about web news
Godd riddance!
Nice job. I’m sure he’ll come up with something else though.
Re Allison’s post- that’s too funny…
what a dork…and this guy has some smarts?
A dork and the gold digger. What a nice couple? Their kids will be dorky bitches!
seems like a walleywag piece not a tc post…
wha? Dude, she’s hot.
source on the run-in?
Following in a long tradition of creative people in the software biz. In the old days at Esther’s or Agenda people would show up at the sessions stoned. The days before laptops and wifi. The only way to survive the droning boredom was to take a few tokes before going into the room. How the suits did it I don’t know.
Look at him. So douche bag hippie, no wonder he was fired.
What’s up with this new, sensationalistic and gossipy style? It’s okay to report that Vimeo’s founder left the company, but how can it possibly be relevant what his girlfriend thinks? Seriously, guys.
I agree Daren and Thomas. This is about start-ups.
I had never seen her/his/their blog before.
I must now scrub my eyeballs with pumice.
I hate you.
Hmmm….. just shared the same stage with him at IAC beginning of the month!
Wonder what his next thing is……..
What a hilarious FU to MegaCorp.
I didn’t see him in that environment for TOO long so - congrats
and “maddening props”
Who the fuck cares about your spats with some retarded rich kids with inflated egos. They’re not any better or worse than other web 2.0 ‘tards you flog on your site ad-nauseum.
Grow the fuck up. Techcrunch is having a slow news day that you need to compete with Valleywag? they’re at least funny you wanker.
Agreed; who let the Gawker commenters in? Jakob’s not meek, but he’s not some useless douche. He actually conceived and built a brilliant site that makes YouTube look like a third-grade after-school project. He ran a productive but amazingly happy team, and he inspired love for his site from its users.
Jakob laid his life spread-eagle on the web, and for that he deserves ridicule, like all the rest of us exhibitionists. But it’s lazy and stupid to write off his entire value as a person.
Idiots.
what he is going to make now?
Jobs hires Scully, Scully fires Jobs, Board fires Scully, Brings back Jobs.
Ya never know.
That goodbye post link seems has been removed.
Congrats on the most unusual headline on Techmeme today
Mike, are you referring to that video as “the scandal”? If so I’d be disappointed because your post would seem manipulative. It’s the year 2007 now, and anyone can be caught on camera being silly. I’d think it’s about time people learn to put things into context. However if the video is not “the scandal”, please explain.
I dont’ get the scandal part. We all have moments of letting loose or being goofy. Does the difference between seeing it live and having it recorded make it a scandal?
That photo is hysterical.
The world is just filled with quality people, ain’t it?
I actually went to school with Jakob at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was as full of himself then, as he is now. Granted, the founders made silly money off of pointless college related material. Nonetheless he was still a twit.
Today is the first time I’ve heard of Vimeo. I’m guessing it’s “better” than youtube in the same way google video is “better” than youtube. In other words, it’s better in ways that nerds/video-geeks care about, but not most consumers.
Also Jakob’s girlfriend, Julia Alison, is legitimately hot which is somewhat surprising. I don’t mean “nerd hot” btw. I mean “hot hot”. Seems like a handful though.
DLM - that’s what happens when you have lots of money. You obtain hot women.
Jakob’s welcome to work on my search engine with me if he wants. I don’t care if he smokes pot or not. This is just like the dell dude.
Look what happened to him.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/1.....-a-waiter/
Also I posted a video about the PCDOS founder also toking up:
youtube.com/watch?v=303F_qmtKnE
Jakob, if you are reading through and you want to collaborate, get a hold of me now. I really think you got a raw deal there. What I have is way better than flash streaming video anyway.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Carl Sagan also smoked pot, and the PCDOS founder I was referring to that smoked dope was of course Gary Kimball. Just copy paste the video URL and wait a couple minutes to the jacuzzi part for the reference.
At any rate, if Jakob reads through and he wants to help code this, then he can use the contact form to get a hold of me. I’m pretty cool when people aren’t snobby “don’t you know who I am” jerks to me. Which actually happens a lot.
“I actually went to school with Jakob at the Rochester Institute of Technology”
I went to school at Finger Lakes Community College before I went to college here in Canada. That was only a few miles away from RIT. I had pretty good grades, but I couldn’t afford to go to RIT.
Chris thanks for explaining. NOOOW I know where you went for college.
Chris R is such a flunky! Please go into your cave and stay there until you have something worth sharing.
How desperate would have to be to work with Chris? VERY!
Less drama news and more coverage of new site news please.
Great title - could not resist reading this…
Was it a bong hit for Jesus? I think it was and I’d have to suggest he run for Mike Huckabee’s Vice …. president.
I am a first time blogger. I did not start reading blogs until I started my own. This blog has been so helpful to me as a newbie. Thumbs Up!
Is it just me or does the guy look like he just crapped his pants. Maybe the kind weed he is smoking is just that good (or bad).
The word ‘Poindexter’ comes to mind.
This guy have to be uberrich to get a girl like that.
A lot of people are assuming Jakob Lodwick is super rich. What is the justification for this? Vimeo seems to be a financial failure.
Huh? Startup. Barry Diller? You negative idiots should be applauding him. At least he’s created something.
NYC is full of trash.
“A lot of people are assuming Jakob Lodwick is super rich. What is the justification for this? Vimeo seems to be a financial failure.”
He was a founder of Connected Ventures which a majority stake was sold to InterActiveCorp a year ago, I imagine he did pretty well out of the deal (rumored to be $20 million+)
Connected Ventures owns Vimeo, CollegeHumor and busted tees
when is this guy gonna get a backbone and quit deleting all of his blog posts?