Jake Lodwick is a software engineer, serial entrepreneur and investor, best known as co-founder of Vimeo.
Background
Lodwick was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and attended college at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Career
Lodwick was the initial web developer for CollegeHumor and the resulting Connected Ventures in 2004. 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 medical In 2006 Vimeo was acquired by Barry Diller"s InterActiveCorp/Interactive Corporation, and Lodwick was fired in late 2007.
After departing Vimeo, Lodwick worked as an independent creative engineer, launching Pummelvision, software that assembles your photos into stories with music
Today Lodwick serves as Chief Executive Officer of the software company Elepath. he founded in 2012. He splits his time between Brooklyn and San Francisco.
In the years since Vimeo"s sale to InterActiveCorp, Lodwick has invested in other technology startups including Tumblr and Makerbot.
