Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)
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Evan Williams at XOXO Festival, September 2013
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| Born |
Evan Clark Williams March 31, 1972 Clarks, Nebraska, United States |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Internet Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Known for |
Blogger Medium |
| Net worth |
 US $1.71 billion (December 2015) |
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| Spouse(s) | Sara M. Williams |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Evan Clark Williams (born March 31, 1972) is 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.
Williams was born in Clarks, Nebraska, as the third child of Monte Williams and Laurie Howe. He grew up on a farm in Clarks, where he assisted with crop irrigation in summers. He attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for a year and a half, where he joined FarmHouse Fraternity, but eventually left to pursue his career.
After leaving school, Williams worked at various technology jobs and start-up firms in Florida, at Key West, and in Texas, at Dallas and Austin, before returning to his family farm in Nebraska. In 1996 Williams moved to Sebastopol, California in Sonoma County to work for the technology publishing company O'Reilly Media. He started at O'Reilly in a marketing position but eventually became an independent contractor writing computer code, which led to freelance opportunities with companies including Intel and Hewlett-Packard.
Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software. A note-taking feature spun off as Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing weblogs. Williams invented the term "blogger" and was instrumental in the popularization of the term "blog". Pyra survived the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google on February 13, 2003.
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