Rank #2149
Evan Williams
Net worth $2.0B
Twitter · United States
- Born
- Mar 31, 1972
- Age
- 54
- Source
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Drop Out, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Net worth over time
Biography
- Evan Williams, also referred to as "Ev," has started three digital publishing companies: Blogger, Twitter and Medium.
- A University of Nebraska dropout, Williams grew up on his family's soybean and corn farm.
- Williams' venture capital firm, Obvious Ventures, was one of the largest investors in Beyond Meat, which had a successful IPO in May 2019.
- He cofounded Twitter and served as a member of its board of directors until February 2019. He was President and CEO from July 2009 to March 2010.
- In July 2022, Williams announced he was stepping down as CEO of Medium, the online publishing platform he founded in 2012. He remains chairman.
- Williams has been credited as the person who coined the term "blogger."
- Williams sold tutorial videos aimed at helping people understand the Internet in the mid-1990s.
- Williams' firm Obvious Ventures invests in "world positive" companies, focusing on sustainability, healthy living and democratizing tech.
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