Comments on: Vimeo Founder Fired, Does A Bong Hit

By: JabberWockey

JabberWockey — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:06:24 +0000

Vimeo is where the cool, hyper-artistic kids hang out, don’t you know?

Their interface and design is second-to-none, but it’s way too much of a circle jerk for my tastes. It reminds me of film festivals… pretentious and nobody realizes that the only audience watching their stuff is other people making the same stuff. If they had to actually… you know, ENTERTAIN people, they couldn’t do it if their life depended upon it. Beautifully shot, yes, but boring as all get out.

It’s too bad really, they could be so much more if they’d get off their high horse.

By: Dave Brown

Dave Brown — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:18:58 +0000

golddiggers

By: parcakontor

parcakontor — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:03:51 +0000

thanksss

By: worldkontor

worldkontor — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:03:19 +0000

Parça Kontör

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By: crypt

crypt — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:00:34 +0000

vimeo is run like a frat party. bunch of twats.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:03:33 +0000

I can’t believe I’m posting to this post, but just had to add a few things:
– IMO, Vimeo has, to this day, the tightest design I’ve ever seen in my life — and I’ve seen a lot of websites.
– You can’t put entrepreneurs into a sluggish corporate environment and expect them to stick. I spoke to Zach and Jakob at SXSW ‘07 soon after IAC took a share in their company; they were going on their first meeting the following week in hopes of getting their hands on updating Evite. Obviously the red tape was way too thick and they weren’t able to do that.
– IAC would have benefited by putting Zach/Jakob in as Co-Strategic Officers or some BS title, but basically giving them all the rights to overhaul stuff. Yes I am shocked that Evite with their website from 1996 still is the event site king.
– I can’t believe IAC doesn’t have a social network in their portfolio (I still say buy Friendster; yes it lost the long-term USA battle, but it’s a solid brand and could grow with integration into IAC’s powerhouse of Internet brands).
– Jakob definitely has some bucks, he just did his first angel investment (into Tumblr — another slickly designed, simple app).
– Jakob and Zach will come back at us with something that rocks.

Oh – and I went to RIT for 2 years (great school!).

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:10:04 +0000

Jesus Christ, look at this guy. Jakob Lodwick puts the EMO in Vimeo.

By: LT

LT — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:21:18 +0000

The only problem I have with Lodwick is the pretentious “I’m-so-great-I-make-ugly-shit-cool” hipster glasses.

By: rick

rick — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:53:30 +0000

when is this guy gonna get a backbone and quit deleting all of his blog posts?

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:38:45 +0000

“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

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:08:08 +0000

NYC is full of trash.

By: Fatphil

Fatphil — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:07:48 +0000

Huh? Startup. Barry Diller? You negative idiots should be applauding him. At least he’s created something.

By: InterestedParty

InterestedParty — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:49:27 +0000

A lot of people are assuming Jakob Lodwick is super rich. What is the justification for this? Vimeo seems to be a financial failure.

By: Joe B.

Joe B. — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:58:53 +0000

This guy have to be uberrich to get a girl like that.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:18:51 +0000

The word ‘Poindexter’ comes to mind.

By: Eww

Eww — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:41:14 +0000

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).

By: red

red — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:55:55 +0000

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!

By: Joe Duck

Joe Duck — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:48:58 +0000

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.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:40:03 +0000

Less drama news and more coverage of new site news please.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:39:27 +0000

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!

By: gs

gs — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:58:33 +0000

Chris thanks for explaining. NOOOW I know where you went for college.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:25:29 +0000

“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.

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:18:58 +0000

http://simple.w...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.