
Ev Williams
Ev Williams is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known for co-founding Blogger, Twitter, and Medium. Williams is also the founder of Obvious Corporation, a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups.
Williams grew up in Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After graduating in 1994, he moved to California and got a job as a software engineer at O'Reilly Media. In the late 90s, he developed a web application called Pyra Labs, which was later acquired by Google and became the foundation for their blogging product, Blogger.
Williams left Google in 2003 to launch Odeo, a podcasting platform. Odeo was eventually sold to SonicMountain, and Williams moved on to start Obvious Corporation in 2006. In 2008, he co-founded Twitter with Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone.
Twitter became an overnight success, and Williams served as the company's CEO from 2008 to 2010. During this time, he helped the company expand and develop new products. He stepped down from the company in 2011 and began investing in startups and early-stage companies.
In 2012, Williams founded Medium, a platform for publishing and sharing stories. Medium has become a popular platform for writers and journalists to share their work. Williams served as the company's CEO until 2017 when he stepped down and became the company's chairman.
In addition to his investments and businesses, Williams is also a philanthropist. In 2014, he founded the Williams Family Foundation, which focuses on education, health, and the environment. He has also donated to various organizations, including the American Red Cross, CARE, and the ACLU.
Williams is an inspiration to many entrepreneurs and tech professionals. He has demonstrated a passion for building companies, investing in startups, and giving back to his community. His success has shown that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"



Snow Crash



Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance



The Catcher in the Rye



The Innovator's Dilemma



Good to Great



Travels



A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius



Crossing the Chasm



Absurdistan



Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking



Thinking, Fast and Slow



Adverbs



Mastery



Airframe



Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day



Fooled by Randomness



Man's Search for Meaning



Stumbling on Happiness



Anthem



Antifragile



The Martian



Atlas Shrugged



The Tipping Point



Mindset



High Output Management



Bit Literacy



You Are Not a Gadget



The Unbearable Lightness of Being



Built to Last



Cat's Cradle



The First American



Jitterbug Perfume



Jonathan Livingston Seagull



Cryptonomicon



Cumulus



Dancing Naked in the Mind Field



Delivering Happiness



Dune



Einstein's Dreams



Emergence



Everything Bad is Good for You



Ender's Game



Focus



Freakonomics



Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering



Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates



Future Perfect



Fuzzy Thinking



Gates



Get Back in the Box



Getting Things Done



Hackers



Hackers & Painters



Holacracy



The Great Gatsby



In Search of Excellence



In the Beginning...Was the Command Line



Infinite Creativity



It's Not About the Bike



Jimmy Corrigan



Joel on Software



Lolita



Mating



Me Talk Pretty One Day



Microserfs



Mindfulness for Beginners



Moneyball



Lord of the Flies



Mind Wide Open



Nonzero



On Intelligence



On the Road



Out of Control



Ogilvy on Advertising



The Effective Executive



The Fountainhead



Positioning



Ready for Anything



Reinventing Fire



Revolutionary Wealth



Seeing What's Next



Small Pieces Loosely Joined



Smart and Gets Things Done



Sphere



Shopgirl



Slack



Speaker for the Dead



The Blind Side



The Bonfire of the Vanities



Tesla



The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay



The Art of the Start 2.0



The Corrections



The Da Vinci Code



The Dip



The China Study



The Cluetrain Manifesto



The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time



The Diamond Age



The Halo Effect



The Long Tail



The Monk and the Riddle



The Know-It-All



The Perfect Store



The Power of One



The Social Life of Information



The Wisdom of Crowds



The Selfish Gene



The Seven-Day Weekend



Understanding Comics



User Interface Design for Programmers



We the Eaters



What Should I Do with My Life?



Winning



Wired



Working



You Shall Know Our Velocity!



Why Most Things Fail



Wool


