Ev Williams
CEO at The Obvious Corporation
Ev Williams: Medium Wants To Help Build A Sustainable Economic Model For Journalism
At the Launch Conference in San Francisco today, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams took the stage to talk to conference founder Jason Calacanis about everything from his experience at Twitter and the rise of Vine to sharing his take on Google and Facebook as well as the latest from Medium... Read more »
Evan Williams’ Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter
By Laura Hazard Owen April 17, 2013: 09:00 AM ET ( gigaom.com ) -- Matter, the Kickstarter-backed, science and technology journalism startup cofounded by former GigaOM European correspondent Bobbie Johnson, has only been up and running for five months — but it’s already found a new home. ... Read more »
The Obvious Corp. Takes Backseat As Ev Williams, Biz Stone, And Jason Goldman Shift Focus To Individ...
Medium, the Obvious-incubated next-generation publishing platform, is now operating as its own standalone company with Ev Williams spending “98 percent” of his time there. Some 30 staffers who previously were hired as Obvious employees are now working as full-time Medium employees. ... Read more »
Ev’s 3 Reasons To Sell Your Startup: Upside, Threat And Choice. Twitter Didn’t Qualify
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says you should only sell your company if the offer captures the upside, there’s an imminent threat, or you personally want to. “Any of them will suffice,” but Twitter didn’t have any, says Williams. In the Medium post, Williams discusses how ... Read more »
Evan Williams About Twitter’s APIs: “We Didn’t Have That All Figured Out”
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today to discuss Medium, their new online publishing platform coming out of Obvious Corp with YouTube’s Hunter Walk. Maybe the most interesting statement of the session came from Evan Williams... Read more »
Twitter founders unveil new blogging tool
A collection of users' childhood photos on Medium, the new blogging platform from Evan Williams and Biz Stone. Site not open to public yet; Twitter users can sign in to read, vote on posts (CNN) -- There's yet another way to post writing and photos and share them with other people ... Read more »
Social Entrepreneurship Super-Duo, Biz Stone And Evan Williams, To Join Us At Disrupt SF
We’re excited to announce that co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams are joining us on stage at Disrupt, after their widely publicized departure from leading Twitter to focus on social entrepreneurship. They’ll be speaking about their stealthy social-good incubator, Obvious (which ... Read more »
Michael Young: Getting the News
) This week we bring you Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, and partner at Obvious Corporation. Evan's accomplishments are so great as to be almost preposterous: not only did he co-found two of the Internet's top ten websites, but he also invented the term "blogger. ... Read more »
Evan Williams, Max Levchin, And John Borthwick Are All In A Room Talking Right Now
Twitter cofounder Evan Williams, Betaworks founder John Borthwick, Slide founder Max Levchin, MySpace founder Michael Jones and Mozilla Corp CEO John Lilly are having a conversation right now. They're hanging out on a new startup, Branch, a group blogging platform for thought leaders. ... Read more »
Ev Williams' Medium Buys Journalism Startup Matter
Medium, the publishing platform launched by Twitter's co-founder Ev Williams, has acquired a long-form journalism startup called Matter for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced Wednesday. Matter raised more than $140,000 from a Kickstarter campaign in early 2012 — nearly three ... Read more »
Evan Williams: Green tech is coming, but it’s time to stop talking climate
The Internet has a new advocate for greener technologies: Evan Williams, CEO of Obvious Corp and former CEO of Twitter. At the kick off to Climate Week in New York on Monday, Williams called for reframing the discussion around climate. Does the Internet have a new green advocate? ... Read more »
Evan Williams on Twitter and its ecosystem
Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and the company’s former CEO during the beginning of its evolution from a side project into a major social-media entity, says that the influence of the network’s ecosystem has been widely overstated. But is that true? As we’ve described in a ... Read more »
Medium Acquires Matter As Long-Form Journalism Site Joins Evan Williams Startup
Medium, the content creation platform started by Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone, has acquired Matter, the science and technology journalism startup cofounded by former long-time Guardian technology correspondent and GiGaOm writer Bobbie Johnson last year, for an ... Read more »
The Rise Of Company Builders
Twitter co-founders Ev Williams And Biz Stone launched the Obvious Corp.; Mike Jones and Peter Pham run the LA-based studio Science; Max Levchin debuted his R Snapfish founder and Mayfield partner Raj Kapoor is in the process of launching his studio cofounder.co; Michael Birch ... Read more »
Medium Becomes A More Full-Featured Writing Platform, Adds Stats And Explains Lack Of Commenting
We’ve told you a bit about the latest writing and blogging platform from Ev Williams’ new product, Medium, and the team has been incrementally adding things, and talent, to the service to make it a full-featured interactive service. It’s been fun watching it evolve, albeit in private ... Read more »
Square CEO Jack Dorsey scales back at Twitter
Twitter's co-founder -- ousted from the company in 2008 during a power struggle with fellow co-founder Evan Williams -- had a big hand in a major redesign Twitter unleashed in Dec. 2011. The overhaul revamped the site's design and iconography with an eye toward making it more unified and ... Read more »
The Medium Model: Can Writers Live Large?
That, according to a source, is what Sloane Crosley supplied to a new project called Medium, from Twitter co-founder Ev Williams. Williams won’t pay you for a Tweet but, for now at least, he might pay you depending on who you are. This moment of our disrupted future looks ... Read more »
Ev Williams' Medium Buys Journalism Startup Matter
Medium, the publishing platform launched by Twitter's co-founder Ev Williams, has acquired a long-form journalism startup called Matter for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced Wednesday. Matter raised more than $140,000 from a Kickstarter campaign in early 2012 — nearly three ... Read more »
Former Twitter CEO Says Network Needs a Better Metric Than Follower Count
Twitter users may obsess over their follower count, but its co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams believes there needs to be a better way to measure one’s reach and influence on the social network. During a discussion with Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti and Branch co-founder Josh ... Read more »
SXSW 2012: Saman Arbabi Talks 'Parazit' And Government Censorship In Iran (VIDEO)
It's the work of counter-cultural iconographer Shepard Fairey, who enlisted Twitter co-founder Evan Williams to open his eyes for the camera: Like Williams, Arbabi is the ideal poster boy for Weapons of Mouse Destruction, a social media-driven awareness campaign about government ... Read more »
