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 brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.
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Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.
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Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.
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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.
'What is Twitter?' has always been a tough question to answer.
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There's something about just hanging around when it comes to success on the Internet.
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I used to tweet about the most mundane things - like 'I just bought a soya latte' - but now I try and make it a bit more interesting.
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'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.
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My brother was an advisor to Michael Manley and they wanted to do a project in McIntyre Lands. It was about 1972. I volunteered to design a scheme and the next thing I knew the PNP won (the general election).
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Mass spectrometry is one of the most sensitive methods for finding drugs, chemicals, pollutants and disease, but the problem is that you have to extract a sample and treat that sample before you can analyze it.
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I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.
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It is designing for thousands of people. It's always a joy when visitors enjoy a property and want to return.
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I have a love for the hospitality industry.
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The paper pointed out to us we did not advertise that we were having a conference,