Mr Evan Clark Williams
Also known as
Ev Williams

Recent investment activity


KANDO id: 417471

Bio

Ev is the co-founder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium. For the last twenty years he has helped shape the modern internet. Starting in January 1999, Ev co-founded Pyra Labs, which created the blog-publishing service Blogger (and coined the term "blogger") and was acquired by Google in early 2003. He then co-founded Odeo and Obvious Corp, which gave birth to Twitter in 2006. Ev was Twitter's co-founder, lead investor, and former CEO. In 2011, Ev, along with Biz Stone and Jason Goldman, restarted Obvious Corp and began a mix of start-up investing and incubation. His investments have included Branch (acquired by Facebook), Beyond Meat (IPO May 2019), Blue Bottle Coffee (acquired by Nestle), and Nest (acquired by Google), among others. Ev co-founded Obvious Ventures in 2014 with James Joaquin and Vishal Vasishth. He is currently the CEO of Medium.


Career


Obvious Ventures - founder


Medium Corp - founder

Online publishing platform.

Blogger - founder


Twitter Inc - founder

Social networking and micro-blogging.

Education

Top investment portfolio themes

Actual initial investment stage

Selected investments

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Profile Country Date Funding
EverFi Inc Online financial literacy education platform. Series B
Moxxie Ventures LP Fund Closing Initial investment