That company failed, but founder Evan Williams spun out a side project called Twitter.
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It is not clear whether Alwaleed would be buying shares from Twitter cofounders Evan Williams or Biz Stone.
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Stone is teaming up with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter head of product Jason Goldman to start Obvious.
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Goldman previously worked with Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone on Blogger, before the company was bought by Google.
That led to a full-time gig at the podcasting startup Odeo, built by a former Google star named Evan Williams.
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But even more interestingly, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams also visited Seoul and held a press conference on Wednesday to talk about the recent launch.
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Other influences have been Evan Williams who I have collaborated with since 2003 and Jack Dorsey who built the first prototype of Twitter with me.
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High-profile CEOs like Zuckerberg, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh or Twitter co-founder Evan Williams -- all past keynote speakers -- are nowhere to be found on this year's roster.
He offered Margaret and me the last few swallows from his pint of Evan Williams bourbon, and told me about the past year, which, for him, had been filled with adventure, serendipitous encounters, and the kindness of many strangers.
Mr. Costolo has been credited with carefully managing the exits of two of the company's co-founders: Evan Williams, who was Twitter CEO between 2008 and last fall, and Biz Stone, Twitter's evangelist and spokesman on talk-show circuits.
Besides those mentioned in the text, the author would like to thank: Paul Adamson, Andrew Belfer, Steve Braverman, Dick Costolo, Clive Crook, Sulaiman al-Hattlan, Mazen Hayek, Kathrin Hille, Jonathan Hova, Ronald Howes, Mishal Kanoo, Jonathan Kempner, Glenn Hubbard, Andrew Likierman, Iyad Males, Ed Merchant, Arif Naqvi, Ahmed Nassef, Sooud al-Qassemi, Jesse Scott, Michael Sonnenfeldt, Miles Varn, Evan Williams, Tarik Youssef, and several others who must remain nameless.
Walker Williams and Evan Stites-Clayton met while studying at Brown University.
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