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Evan Williams was born in 1972 and is the founder of Obvious Corp, a San Francisco-based web product development company and co-founder of Twitter, a micro-blogging and social networking site.

Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, where he worked most of 2003-04, to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.

Williams left Google in 2004 to co-found Odeo, a podcasting company. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. Obvious has acquired all previous properties of Odeo, Inc., including Odeo and Twitter, and Twitter has now grown large enough require being its own company.