| Born | Evan Clark Williams March 31, 1972 Clarks, Nebraska, United States |
|---|---|
| Residence | San Francisco |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1993–Present |
| Known for | Blogger |
| Spouse(s) | Sara Morishige |
| Children | 2 |
Williams is credited as a co-founder of the Twitter social media website and explained in a 2013 interview that the ethos of the founding team was to "do less" by practicing restraint and focus. Williams also emphasized the importance of quality over quantity, based on the Twitter experience:
Any time you're building a product, there are a million things you want to add to make it better, but the fact is the vast majority of them will not impact your success. It's more important to make those decisions well than it is to figure out how to increase productivity so you can add more and more ... We were sure we needed to add features for Twitter to make sense for a larger audience beyond the geeks that were using it at the time. We ended up never adding them ... The No. 1 requested feature by users in the first year or two of Twitter was some way to group your Tweets, sort of like Google Circles. Users were dying for it ... and [we] just never got around to it. It arguably would have been really bad, because it added complexity that wasn't necessary.[2]
According to the October 2013 Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, his 12 percent stake in the company will be worth US$1.2 billion dollars when the company goes public.[2]
Williams presented at the 2013 XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon, United States (US) and explained his understanding of Internet commerce:
The internet makes human desires more easily attainable. In other words, it offers convenience. Convenience on the internet is basically achieved by two things: speed, and cognitive ease. If you study what the really big things on the internet are, you realise they are masters at making things fast and not making people think ... Here's the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company. Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time…identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.[3]
During his XOXO session, Williams also likened the Internet to "a lot of other major technological revolutions that have taken place in the history of the world," such as agriculture, and asserted that the Internet is not a utopia.
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