Evan Williams
Evan Williams
Evan Clark Williamsis an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Williams was previously Chairman and CEO of Twitter, one of the internet's top ten websites...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth31 March 1972
CityClarks, NE
CountryUnited States of America
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My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.
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People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there every day. Dunkin' Donuts is using Twitter to communicate with those people. There are people who are finding value in that. There's thousands of people, I don't know how many thousands now, following Dunkin' Donuts.
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Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.
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The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up.
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I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
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I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.
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Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
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My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top.
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Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.
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The paper pointed out to us we did not advertise that we were having a conference,
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Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.
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I have a love for the hospitality industry.
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I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
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I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.