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 Copy Share Image
User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better. — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
