{"id":2763,"date":"2017-09-26T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/ev-williams\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:57:43","slug":"ev-williams","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/speaker\/ev-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Ev Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Williams is an American entrepreneur who has co-founded two of the biggest services on the Internet\u2014Blogger, which he ran for four years before selling to Google in 2003, and Twitter, where he was CEO for two years and now serves on the board of directors. Most recently, he launched Medium, a new publishing platform where he serves as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Ev was raised on a farm in rural Nebraska and has been recognized as one of Inc. 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