Twitter former CEO Evan Williams
Evan Williams grew up on a farm in Nebraska Clark Village. At the University of Nebraska, he studied a year and a half, then he started to work. He did different technologies work in some tech start-ups in Key West, Dallas, Austin, Texas. In 1996, he joined O'Reilly Media, at the beginning the was doing marketing, and later gradually became an independent contractor with the opportunity to work with Intel, HP and other companies.
The introduction of the heavyweight product: the Internet's first blog system, Blogger
He has worked with Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, engaged in the design of the project management software, a function of the software later became Blogger, Blogger is the first blog system on the Internet. Williams created the word Blogger.. The dotcom bubble burst in 2001, Blogger was out of resource, Hourihan and other staff left, he was the only one left, no money to buy a server. Requesting user donations, raised over 10 thousand U.S. dollars, survived the storm. He was convinced that the Blog will become a part of the media ecosystem. February 17, 2003 Pyra Labs was acquired by Google.
The introduction of heavyweight product: Twitter
In October 2004, Evan Williams left Google. He created a podcast company called Odeo. In the second half of 2006, Evan Williams, together with Biz Stone and Odeo older employees founded Obvious company, and acquired the whole Odeo.
Twitter is a project of Odeo, at first Twitter only for a service to the friend's phone to send text information. After acquired by Obvious, its progress is very slow. The end of 2006, Obvious upgraded this service, the user does not need to enter your own phone number, they can use instant messaging service and personalized Twitter site to receive and send messages. In April 2007, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey decided to re-form Odeo into their own company: Twitter. And then all of them, including, Jason Goldman, began to energy spent on Twitter, Obvious slowly receded into the background.
Now that Twitter has been a great success. Evan Williams recalls Twitter founder course, said: "Twitter service concept was first proposed by Jack Dorsey, when everyone is busy at Odeo business, so while engaged in a sideline will be very difficult. Although with Odeo business no relationship, or Twitter business persevered, but we did not think Twitter is so successful as it is today. "
In October 2008, Evan Williams succeeded Jack Dorsey to become Twitter CEO. In October 2010, Evan Williams resigned from the company CEO, began to focus on product development, and re-started the Obvious to hatch new ideas. Obvious is also back to the stage.
It is reported that Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Jason Goldman have been left from Twitter, and joined Obvious company. The company has disclosed two important projects: Lift and Branch which is public discussion platform for high-end talent.
Note : this article is translated from CSDN. Original article source : http://news.csdn.net/a/20120331/313796.html
