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
balance work-and-life our-relationship
Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.
technology long desire
Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.
opportunity advice marketing
When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, ‘Do fewer things.’ It’s true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that’s taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.
choices-made focus lessons
Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.
skiers skis very-good
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
talent entrepreneurial bigs
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
along itself
The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.
five opportunity screw six time
Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
except sort
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.
people
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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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.
bad hope majority point vast wrong
If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.
connect easier enable form good groups people showing
People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.
information
Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.