Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur) Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur) Evan Clark Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Williams was previously chairman and CEO of Twitter, one of the top ten websites on the Internet. He also founded Blogger and Medium, two of the largest and most notable blog distribution websites. Williams was born in Clarks, Nebraska, as the third child of Laurie Howe and Monte Williams. He grew up on a farm in Clarks, where he assisted with crop irrigation during the summers. He attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for a year
Evan James Williams the newly formed Operational Research Section at the Admiralty's Coastal Command where he worked for several more years devising more effective methods of dealing with German submarines. Williams died of cancer in September 1945 at his parents' home in Brynawel, Carmarthenshire, at the age of 42 after an 18-month illness. He was buried at Capel y Cwm, Cwmsychbant. His obituary for the Royal Society was written by Blackett, who also broadcast a radio appreciation of Williams in 1949, in which he said: In 1971 John Tysul Jones published a collection of articles about Williams. Evan James Williams Evan James Williams