An American internet entrepreneur named Evan Williams has a net worth of $600 million and pays a salary of approximately $600 million.
Evan Williams was born on March 31, 1972, in Clarks, Nebraska.
Pyra Labs, Blogger, Odeo, and the Obvious Corporation were co-founded by him, which eventually led to the development of Twitter, an online social networking and micro-blogging site.
San Francisco is where Twitter Inc. is headquartered.
In 2013, the company went public, resulting in Evan Williams becoming a billionaire.
During the ’90s, Williams began freelancing and writing computer code for both Hewlett-Packard and Intel.
He and Meg Hourihan were the co-founders of Pyra Labs and its spinoff, Blogger.
MIT Technology Review magazine recognized Williams as one of the “top 100 innovators under age 35” in 2003.
The year in question marked the acquisition of Blogger by Google.
PC Magazine recognized Williams as the 2004 “Person of the Year” for his work on Blogger. In the same year, he founded the podcast company Odeo.
The Obvious Corporation was co-founded by him, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, and Noah Glass in 2006.
Obvious Corp
Initially named Twitter-Twittr, the online social network and micro-blogging platform that allowed users to send short messages in real time using 140 characters or less, quickly became popular worldwide, with 500 million registered users tweeting around 340 million messages daily.
Twitter emerged as a potent force in the U.S. as a result of its influence.
In 2008, Barack Obama and John McCain, both presidential candidates, utilized Twitter to update their supporters while campaigning.
The Iranian government’s decision to block text-messaging and satellite feeds of foreign news coverage during the 2009 presidential elections led to the site’s international recognition, which was comparable to text-messaging for the rest of the world.
Medium, a new publishing platform, was launched in 2012 by Evan Williams and Biz Stone, with the help of Obvious Corp funding.
Bloggers can share ideas and stories that exceed 140 characters and have the option to include graphics.
At present, Evan Williams has a 5% stake in Twitter.