“If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
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Evan Williams
Evan Clark Williams is an American internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Twitter, and was its CEO from 2008 to 2010, and a member of its board from 2007 to 2019. He founded Blogger and Medium. In 2014, he co-founded the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures. As of May 2025, his net worth is estimated at US$2 billion, according to Forbes.
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business · American entrepreneur (born 1972) · entrepreneur · blogger · businessperson · computer scientist · also Evan Williams, Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Clark Williams, Ev Williams, Williams
Born 31 March 1972 · Q561960
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2026· 2 entries
“obviously broken because it rewards extremes”
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2024· 1 entry
Williams announced his new company, Mozi, which is a private social network he co-founded with entrepreneur Molly DeWolf Swenson
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2022· 1 entry
It was announced Williams would step down as Medium's CEO and become the chairman of the board
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2017· 1 entry
An article announced Williams would sell 30 percent of his stock in Twitter, for "personal reasons
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2014· 2 entries
Williams co-founded the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures with James Joaquin and Vishal Vasishth
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Co-founded the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures
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2013· 2 entries
Williams and Stone announced that they would be unwinding Obvious Corporation as they focused on individual startups
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The company was valued at between US$14 billion and US$20 billion
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2012· 1 entry
Williams created the publishing platform Medium
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2008· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief executive officer (2008–2010).
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2006· 1 entry
Published “A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder” in Archives of Internal Medicine — cited 29,108 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Was named one of PC Magazine's "People of the Year", along with Hourihan and Paul Bausch, for their work on Blogger
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2003· 2 entries
Williams was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35
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Published “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 21,347 times.
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2001· 2 entries
Published “The PHQ-9” in Journal of General Internal Medicine — cited 39,672 times.
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
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1996· 1 entry
Williams moved to Sebastopol, California, in Sonoma County to work for the technology publishing company O'Reilly Media
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1986· 1 entry
Published “Learning representations by back-propagating errors” in Nature — cited 24,512 times.
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-03-31.
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