Evan Williams: The Digitalization Founder

Evan Williams, through innovative milestones and experience as a co-founder for services such as Twitter, Blogger, and Medium, shaped communication, sharing, and online consumption behaviors among millions of people. A long-time testament to the technological potential and entrepreneurial spirit at his fingertips, Evan Williams shows where technology can lead an entrepreneur.

Early Life and Career

Evan Clark Williams was born March 31, 1972. This was early enough in time to leave this small town of Clarks in the state of Nebraska for great things in the business of tech. Williams comes from farmed up rural land, but was indeed an ambitious boy beyond the circumstances in which he found himself. Williams attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln but never was able to graduate because he became too immersed in following his passions through a sprouting technology venture.

Williams was initially into tech working on companies like O’Reilly Media. It didn’t take time to realize he loved innovation and solving hard problems. That’s how his focus went onto tools that simplify online communications.

Blogger: The Blog Revolution Begins

In 1999, Williams cofounded Pyra Labs with the idea of developing one of the first blogging platforms on the web; this was Blogger. Democratization means that anybody having an Internet connection can share his thought to the world. It was indeed told that this platform…