Evan Williams

Evan Williams is one of the most consequential people most folks couldn't pick out of a lineup. A kid from Clarks, Nebraska who studied at Nebraska-Lincoln, he went on to co-found Twitter and serve as its CEO, after already creating Blogger and later building Medium. What fascinates me is the through-line: he keeps trying to give ordinary people simpler ways to publish their thoughts. That's a real philosophy, not just a string of startups. With a reported net worth around two billion dollars by 2025, he's clearly succeeded, but I find the recurring obsession with writing tools more telling than the money. He's a quiet shaper of how we all talk online.

Name (English)

Evan Williams

Name (Japanese)

エヴァン・ウィリアムズ

Reading

えゔぁん・うぃりあむず

Born

March 31, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rat

Origin

Clarks, Nebraska, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / blogger / businessperson / computer scientist

High school

Columbus High School

University

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/evhead/
• Xhttps://x.com/ev
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA

Tags

• Nebraska
• entrepreneur
• blogger
• businessperson

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.