About Evan Williams

Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies.

Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software. A note-taking feature spun off as Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. Pyra survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google on February 17, 2003.

Williams left Google in October 2004 to co-found Odeo, a podcasting company. In late 2006, Williams co-founded [http://obvious.com Obvious Corp] with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. Obvious has acquired all previous properties of Odeo, Inc., including Odeo and Twitter, another project started by Williams.

Obvious Corp. spun out Twitter into a separate company in April 2007. Sonic Mountain acquired Odeo in May 2007.

PC Magazine named Evan Williams, Paul Bausch and Hourihan, the Blogger team as [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1744185,00.asp People of the Year] in 2004.

Williams maintains the popular weblog [http://www.evhead.com Evhead]. He lives in San Francisco, California with his wife, Sara Morishige, and cat, Moki.