I used to tweet about the most mundane things – like ‘I just bought a soya latte’ – but now I try and make it a bit more interesting. – Evan Williams
I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee. – Evan Williams
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn’t a very good skier. – Evan Williams
The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up. – Evan Williams
People are fans of Dunkin’ Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there every day. Dunkin’ Donuts is using Twitter to communicate with those people. There are people who are finding value in that. There’s thousands of people, I don’t know how many thousands now, following Dunkin’ Donuts. – Evan Williams
Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time. – Evan Williams
My strong belief – in being in blogging before Twitter – is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top. – Evan Williams
After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working. – Evan Williams
The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better. – Evan Williams
I suspect there’s a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren’t going to attract entrepreneurial talent. – Evan Williams
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. – Evan Williams
Anything I’ve done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem. – Evan Williams
There’s something about just hanging around when it comes to success on the Internet. – Evan Williams
Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that’s important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break. – Evan Williams
Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn’t really take advantage of the network. – Evan Williams
I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention – it’s like a super power. – Evan Williams
Every time you start a company – and I’ve started five or six – you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways. – Evan Williams
When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, ‘Do fewer things.’ It’s true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that’s taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success. – Evan Williams
