Evan Williams quotes

Evan Williams is an American entrepreneur and computer programmer, best known as a co-founder of Twitter, Blogger, and Medium. His work has played a significant role in shaping the landscape of online communication and publishing. He continues to influence the tech industry through his innovative ventures and investments. Here are 11 of his quotes:

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

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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.

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I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

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Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

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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.

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If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.

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I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.

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I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

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I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

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