Lane Goldberg

Lane Goldberg (born May 14, 1984) is a Kuwaiti-American front end developer. Lane rose to prominence as a developer for the Tribeca Film Festival, Jason Hirschhorn, and Kanye West.

Early Life and Education

Lane was born at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York on May 14, 1984 to Bart and Myra Goldberg. Lane spent his youth in Westport, Connecticut, attending Long Lots Elementary School, Coleytown Middle School, and Staples High School (Connecticut). After two years at Staples, Lane attended The Gunnery, a private, coeducational boarding school in Washington, Connecticut.

Lane graduated from Cornell University in 2008. Lane frequented the Just About Music dorm (JAM).

Professional Life

LifeStream Video

In early 2009, Lane formed a full-service video production company with his longtime friend Johnny Kingsboro, entitled LifeStream Video. The Two collaborators filmed many weddings, events, and parties, ultimately winning "Best of the Knot 2010" thus paving the way for successful collaborations in documentary filmmaking.

Work for Kanye West

Lane has created many websites and applications for the recording artist Kanye West. Projects include iterations of KanyeWest.com, West's online retail outlet Yeezy.supply, websites for the release of Yeezus, The Life of Pablo, and DONDA, West's creative agency.

Life of Pablo Website Controversy and Critical Acclaim

The Life of Pablo website was originally built by Lane to be a standalone site that would have allowed users to stream and pay to download each track off of the Kanye West record of the same name. This streaming mechanism was ultimately determined to breach the recording artist's contract with major record label, Capitol Records. The website was never released in its original form, as intended by both Lane and Mr. West. Instead, the site was reformulated to allow paid digital downloads only, much to the chagrin of the recording artist. The v.2 website's metadata contained, in the form of ASCII artwork created by Lane, a rendition of the album's photographic artwork, a picture of a young Mr. West playing the keyboard wearing headphones.