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. Evan Williams Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn’t a very good skier. Evan Williams Read Quote
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. Evan Williams Read Quote
I mistrust anyone… if they’re saying, ‘Well, that market wants this,’ and you’re not part of that market. Evan Williams Read Quote
People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good. Evan Williams Read Quote
Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust. Evan Williams Read Quote
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. Evan Williams Read Quote
I think there’s few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works. Evan Williams Read Quote
