An interview with Evan Williams on his new app Mozi, which raised $6M and aims to foster in-person connections as a return to social media's original intention
Evan Williams's new app, Mozi, is aimed at fostering in-real-life connections.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
Evan Williams says he was “sad” when Elon Musk bought Twitter after thinking the idea was “interesting and fun” and Musk hasn't “dialed it in quite right yet”
“Hasn't quite dialed it in yet” is definitely one way to put it. @darthbluesky.bsky.social : yes it is just not dialed in quite right that is the issue — jfc Tweets: Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintani...
Medium founder Ev Williams is stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by Coach.me CEO Tony Stubblebine; Williams plans to start a new holding company/research lab
Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. Coach Tony : Hello Medium readers, authors, editors and publishers Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Ev Williams calls it quits as CEO of M...
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board
and, at times, challenging. Biz Stone / @biz : After 12 years, the incomparable @ev has left the Twitter board. He got me a job at Google in 2003 and changed my life forever. He's a mentor, an inspira...
At least five publishing partners say they had no advance notice Medium would stop selling its native ad unit “Promoted Stories”
On Wednesday, Medium co-founder Evan Williams announced in a blog post that the publishing platform would abandon its strategy to sell native advertising …
A look inside Twitter since Jack Dorsey's return, amid growth issues, high churn, sliding stock, including how Evan Williams pitched Medium to Twitter for $500M
Thursday, June 2, 2016 Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair : TWITTER REFUSED TO BUY MEDIUM FOR $500 MILLION Avery Hartmans / INSIDER : Twitter cofounder Evan Williams wanted Twitter to buy his blogging platform...
Medium plans publisher monetization within a month, considers paywalls and premium content
Popular long-form blogging platform Medium has given the biggest hint yet as to how and when it will let publishers monetize their content. — Medium founder Evan Williams — who also cofounded Twitte...
Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams unite to defend CEO Dick Costolo from activist shareholders
Kara Swisher / Re/code :
Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams unite to defend CEO Dick Costolo from activist shareholders
Could Activist Investors Take Aim at Twitter's Costolo? — Two weeks ago at a “tea time” at Twitter, co-founders and directors Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams …
Evan Williams: Medium's key advertising sales metric is not page views, but time spent on page
Evan Williams: On billionaire-backed journalism, Shanley Kane, and the problem with vanity ad metrics — Many people use the newish blogging site Medium each day, but almost as many of them are confu...