Evan Williams was born on March 31, 1972 in Clarks, Nebraska. Raised on the family farm, Williams, when not in school helped out with the irrigation chores. He attended the University of Nebraska for a year and a half, and following tradition left to purse a career in technology.
Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, co-founded Pyra Labs to provide Project Management Software. A note-taking feature of the software was spun off into the now popular Google app., Blogger.
Google acquired Pyra Labs on February 13, 2003. Williams left Google in October 2004 to co-found Odeo, a podcasting company. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. In April 2007, Odeo was acquired by Sonic Mountain.
In 2007, Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey hooked-up to start “Twitter”. In October 2008, Williams became CEO of Twitter, displacing Jack Dorsey who became chairman of the board.
Evan Williams lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with wife, Sara Morishige, and son, Miles born on August 11, 2009.
If your feeling like the following information on Williams represents “Cliffs Notes” instead of a journalistic post, there’s good reason. While in the course of doing research for this post, there just was not much information on Williams himself. He has done plenty of interviews, but rarely talks about himself. It’s pretty much Twitter this and that.
Williams like Biz Stone still manages his own Blog, though he also, like Stone has not been active for some time, since December 28, 2009 where his last post was titled “They’re not talking to you”.
And what is Evan Tweeting about today? OH: “My face awaits you.” ……….. Very Strange!
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