Evan Williams
San Francisco, California
Drop Out, University of Nebraska Lincoln
United States
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Twitter, Self Made
$2,800,000,000
1425
#1425 Billionaires 2019
#375 Forbes 400 2015
Evan Williams, also referred to as "Ev," has started three digital publishing companies: Blogger, Twitter and Medium.A University of Nebraska dropout, Williams grew up working on his family's soybean and corn farm. He learned to write code on his own and created blogging platform Blogger with two friends. They sold it to Google in 2003. He cofounded Twitter and has served as a member of its board of directors since May 2007. He was President and CEO from July 2009 to March 2010. Williams is now focused on Medium, the online publishing platform he founded in 2012.
Williams has been credited as the person who coined the term "blogger."Williams sold tutorial videos aimed at helping people understand the Internet in the mid-1990s.
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