February 10, 2005
iPodLounge Takes Off
Ipodlounge is basking in the success of being the authoritative iPod resource. The site gets 2 million unique visitors and over 1000 new forum members each month. The founder, Dennis Lloyd, is now a rock star at technology conferences. When he founded the site in 2001, he was collecting unemployment.When I went to Macworld, the buzz was about the iPod." Lloyd said he was treated like a VIP at Macworld. All the vendors wanted to press his flesh, slap his back and pitch their products, he said. It's a big difference from a couple of years ago.
"I just wanted to do it for myself," he said. "I wanted to build a site and see if they came. I built it and they came, and they came and they came. Nobody could have predicted. Nobody's been as amazed as me. I feel like a spectator, watching this unfold on a stage."
