Jakob, Zach, Vimeo, IAC, and Corporate America’s Red Tape

By Steve Poland   •   December 3, 2007

I posted a comment to a post that I’m sure will get lost on TechCrunch regarding Jakob Lodwick leaving IAC (fired, apparently):

- 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!).




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2 Responses to “Jakob, Zach, Vimeo, IAC, and Corporate America’s Red Tape”

  1. MyAvatars 0.2 Richard Kligman on December 5th, 2007 4:24 am (perm link)

    Pronto, is an IAC property and they are building a bit of a social shopping network.

  2. MyAvatars 0.2 Annika B on December 7th, 2007 6:35 am (perm link)

    Have you heard of madeit.com? We just launched on Oct. 18th. You can make multimedia invites, and after the event you can share photos, videos & stories from the party, as well as connect with the people you met. Check it out and let me know what you think.

    Invite Example: http://madeit.com/82/elfparty2007
    Demo: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hFRzBfIRMtg

    Cheers,

    Annika

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