Jack Dorsey And Evan Williams
Odeo was sold off a few months later to sonic mountain.
Jack dorsey and evan williams. A look at jack dorsey evan williams and the company s largest shareholders. After refining and renaming the platform twitter they brought in investors evan williams and biz stone. Odeo was a startup founded by noah glass. Founders of twitter the world s first ever tweet crossed cyberspace in march 2006.
But i can give a general overview of how i think it happened. Answer to the question what do jack dorsey biz stone evan williams and noah glass have in common founders of. Williams was previously chairman and ceo of twitter he also founded blogger and medium two of the largest and most notable internet platforms. Williams says the two are getting along.
Born march 10 1974 boston mass. Was spun off from obvious corp as a separate entity in 2007. In late 2006 williams biz stone and jack dorsey co founded obvious corp. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million tweets per day 12 the service also handled 1 6 billion search queries per day.
Evan clark williams born 31 march 1972 is an american technology entrepreneur who is the co founder of several technology companies most importantly twitter. Twitter chairman jack dorsey owns about 4 7 of the company s outstanding shares a. The first thing to remember is that twitter s official founders is more about the title given to the outside world. Jack dorsey christopher isaac biz stone and evan williams respectively born nov.
Twitter was a free social networking and micro blogging service. Jack dorsey left and evan williams right at the new york stock exchange for twitter s ipo in 2013. Jack dorsey s landmark tweet said just setting up my twttr this marked the birth of twitter. The idea attracted many users at odeo and investment from evan williams a co founder of that firm in 2005 who had left google after selling pyra labs and blogger.
I don t know the details. Twitter was created in march 2006 by jack dorsey evan williams biz stone and noah glass and by july 2006 the site was launched. Born march 31 1972 near clarks neb twitter the online messaging service cofounded by social media entrepreneur evan williams social networking expert christopher isaac biz stone and messaging software engineer jack dorsey.