Evan Williams (entrepreneur)

Evan Williams in the Twitter office, December 2007.

Evan Williams (born March 31, 1972 in Clarks , Nebraska ) is an American entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies.

Williams founded in 1999 together with Meg Hourihan the company Pyra Labs , where he developed among others the successful website Blogger.com . On February 17, 2003, Pyra Labs was sold to Google . Williams then worked for Google until October 2004.

Together with Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey , he developed the software Twitter and founded the company of the same name in April 2007. In October 2010 he announced that the previous COO Dick Costolo would succeed him as CEO .

He then founded Medium.com , which went online in August 2012. In early 2017, he expressed his dissatisfaction with advertising as the sole source of income for online publications.

literature

Evan Williams , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/2010 from March 23, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Evan Williams - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Roland Lindner: Twitter boss Evan Williams: The twitterer without a business model . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 9, 2009 ( faz.net ).
↑ Leonid Bershidsky: Why media Failed to Disrupt the media . In: Bloomberg View . January 5, 2017 ( bloomberg.com ).

personal data
SURNAME	Williams, Evan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American internet entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nebraska

[1] Roland Lindner: Twitter boss Evan Williams: The twitterer without a business model . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 9, 2009 ( faz.net ).

[2] Leonid Bershidsky: Why media Failed to Disrupt the media . In: Bloomberg View . January 5, 2017 ( bloomberg.com ).