{"id":18220,"date":"2024-12-12T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18220"},"modified":"2024-12-12T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:30:00","slug":"ev-williams-twitter-and-medium-founder-unveils-new-social-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18220","title":{"rendered":"Ev Williams, Twitter and Medium Founder, Unveils New Social App"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Evan Williams<\/a> did not want to start another start-up. He had already enjoyed the kind of rare, unfathomable success most entrepreneurs only dream of, starting tech companies that made products used by millions \u2014 the early blogging site Blogger, the social media giant Twitter, the publishing platform Medium.<\/p>\n

Along the way, Mr. Williams had grappled with corporate turmoil and angst. His last company, Medium, was a decade-long slog that never lived up to its $600 million valuation or lofty mission<\/a> of solving the internet\u2019s ugliest problems. By the time he stepped down as chief executive<\/a> in 2022, he had no desire to do it again, he said.<\/p>\n

But he was lonely. He had gotten divorced and moved cross-country twice in a few years. Before his 50th birthday in 2022, he realized he had \u201cunderinvested\u201d in his friendships, he said. Post-pandemic, he did not even know where many of his friends were living.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was doing a lot of reflecting,\u201d Mr. Williams said. \u201cIn this stage of life, I really wanted to focus on relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pouring so much energy into his start-ups was one reason he had this problem. But maybe a start-up could also help fix it.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Mr. Williams began working on a Rolodex app that would tell him where his friends were living and traveling. It would be more \u201csocial\u201d than \u201csocial media,\u201d with none of the comments, stories, posts, likes, hearts or follows that made his previous creations so addicting.<\/p>\n

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Evan Williams did not want to start another start-up. He had already enjoyed the kind of rare, unfathomable success most entrepreneurs only dream of, starting tech companies that made products used by millions \u2014 the early blogging site Blogger, the social media giant Twitter, the publishing platform Medium.Along the way, Mr. Williams had grappled with corporate turmoil and angst. His last company, Medium, was a decade-long slog that never lived up to its $600 million valuation or lofty mission of solving the internet\u2019s ugliest problems. By the time he stepped down as chief executive in 2022, he had no desire to do it again, he said.But he was lonely. He had gotten divorced and moved cross-country twice in a few years. Before his 50th birthday in 2022, he realized he had \u201cunderinvested\u201d in his friendships, he said. Post-pandemic, he did not even know where many of his friends were living.\u201cI was doing a lot of reflecting,\u201d Mr. Williams said. \u201cIn this stage of life, I really wanted to focus on relationships.\u201dPouring so much energy into his start-ups was one reason he had this problem. But maybe a start-up could also help fix it.In 2022, Mr. Williams began working on a Rolodex app that would tell him where his friends were living and traveling. It would be more \u201csocial\u201d than \u201csocial media,\u201d with none of the comments, stories, posts, likes, hearts or follows that made his previous creations so addicting.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18222,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18223,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions\/18223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}