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Evan Williams

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Originally from Nebraska, Evan Williams co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software. A note-taking feature spun off as Blogger, one of the first web applications. Williams left Google in October 2004 to co-found Odeo. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. Obvious has acquired all previous properties of Odeo, including Odeo and Twitter, another project started by Williams.

On October 4, 2010, Ev Williams stepped down from his role as Twitter’s CEO, in order to focus more intensely on product strategy.

Recent Milestones

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  Evan Williams invested in Everfi. (8/14/12)
  Posted 8/14/12 at 7:49pm via techcrunch.com
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  Evan Williams invested in Milk. (4/1/11)
  Posted 4/26/11 at 4:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Evan Williams invested in Blippy. (1/14/10)
  Posted 1/14/10 at 1:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Evan Williams invested in Typekit. (6/24/09)
  Posted 6/13/11 at 10:44am via typekit.com
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  Evan Williams added a position as Founder at Pyra Labs. (3/12/06)
  Posted 8/6/08 at 7:48am
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  Evan Williams added to Obvious.
  Posted 4/6/08 at 8:09am
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  Evan Williams added a position as Senior Specialist, Blogger at Google.
  Posted 4/6/08 at 8:09am
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  Evan Williams added a position as Co-Founder at Twitter.
  Posted 12/3/08 at 9:27am
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  Evan Williams added a position as Advisor at Branch.
  Posted 5/15/12 at 1:27pm
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  Evan Williams added a position as Founder at Odeo.
  Posted 11/28/12 at 1:48pm

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. Critical Skills Education SaaS EverFi Raises $10M From Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Ev Williams And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. techcrunch.com [edit]
4. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]