Evan Williams, a low-key Twitter co-founder, denotes business. He is breaking his media silence to talk about Medium's vision. Williams spoke about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and blogging.
The Medium is an interesting blogging site co-founded by Evan Williams.
Medium, was started by Williams and Biz Stone with a 75-person, is used by approximately 17 million users a month, to include Elon Musk and President Obama. It is an exciting forum for book chapters, poetry, and essays on design and technology.
Natalie Bartlett, Rough Draft Ventures' community and content lead in New York City says that "It's easy to jump in and publish something aesthetically pleasing." She had posted entrepreneurs' items on Medium since the previous year.
Williams laughs at the suggestion that Medium is a vanity project for some. He says Greylock Partners (as well as other investors) invested in Medium amounting to $20 million so he could say that Medium's, in any way, a vanity project. He emphasizes the Medium's start-up is searching revenue chances in 'sponsored content' with Marriot and BMW and charges in distribution and content.
Evan Williams does not care with regards to leapfrogging in social media.
"I'm not going to say, 'How can we get as many users as Instagram, Facebook or Twitter,'" Williams utters. "There is a toxicity of one-dimensionality in this industry. What is often measured is the breadth and not depth."
The Medium was the noted writers' destination this year and also of a publisher, by way of its properties like Re:form and Matter, of original writing.
He says that Medium is blogging's subsequent wave that is well and alive.
With regards to Twitter, his prior creation, Williams gives CEO Dick Costolo and the team of management especially the VP of product, Kevin Weil high marks.
Williams states that Dick is an operations guy and great executor. Twitter has $23.3 billion market Value.