Evan Williams

Current

• CEO and Co-Founder at Twitter, Inc.
• Founder at Obvious

Past

• CEO at Odeo, Inc.
• Program Manager, Blogger at Google
• Co-Founder, CEO at Pyra Labs

• Marketing Coordinator at O'Reilly Media

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Education

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Recommended

1 person has recommended Evan

Connections

223 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Evan Williams’s Summary

I'm a farmboy from Nebraska. Came to San Franciso in 1997.

I've been working in the Internet/startup world since 1994. For much of that time, I've been fully immersed in blogs and thinking about the web as a force for the democratization of media (and trying to enable it).

Evan Williams’s Specialties:

Personal media, web applications, user experience

Evan Williams’s Experience

• CEO and Co-Founder

  Twitter, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

• Founder

  Obvious

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

• CEO

  Odeo, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 10 months)

• Program Manager, Blogger

  Google

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  February 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  Led the Blogger group as a product and engineering manager.

• Co-Founder, CEO

  Pyra Labs

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1999 — February 2003 (4 years 2 months)

  Started and led the development of Blogger.com -- the leading weblog publishing service. Sold to Google in early 2003.

• Marketing Coordinator

  O'Reilly Media

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1997 — October 1997 (6 months)

  It was then called O'Reilly & Associates, of course. The job I took to get out to California. Great company. Learned a lot. Couldn't handle working for other people for long. But made great connections there, as well.

Evan Williams’s Education

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  1990 — 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  Farmhouse

Additional Information

Evan Williams’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Evan Williams’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• job inquiries