Evan Williams on leaving Twitter • Hacker News Board

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by nhebb » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 9:29 AM UTC

subbu wrote: post #47

billmcneale wrote: post #41

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As did Apple.

But it slumped. It had to call back Jobs to become successful.

I assumed he meant Woz.

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by ignifero » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 10:59 AM UTC

It's Obvious that his next step has something to do with Obvious Inc. Maybe something that will remove everything that is obvious from the web

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by eelco » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 11:44 AM UTC

gromy wrote: post #19

gromy wrote: post #13

Any bets on what Ev will work on next?

A couple years ago Ev wished there was a better calendar to-do list integration out there.

That was about three years ago, see http://www.economist.com/node/10328123

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by kmfrk » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 12:17 PM UTC

Twitter looks more like a company and less than a start-up for every day that passes.

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by weego » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 1:20 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #18

staunch wrote: post #12

Blogger supported 1400 characters. Twitter supported 140 characters. –––––er will support 14 characters. Can't wait for the release!

shrtr?

I'll hold out for shtnr... you get 12 characters, but every post must contain the words my, God and Spock.

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by Jgrubb » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 2:59 PM UTC

beedogs wrote: post #45

citricsquid wrote: post #18

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shrtr?

sharter?

My kind of HNer.

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by igorgue » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 3:26 PM UTC

cake wrote: post #60

mrduncan wrote: post #16

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While Ev certainly deserves plenty of credit for Twitter's success, I think you're giving him a little too much in this case. Twitter actually started out as a Rails project because Florian Weber (who worked at Odeo with Jack on the initial implementation) was a member of the Rails Core team. Jack was originally going to develop it in Python, C, and Ocaml. I don't believe that Ev ever had anything to do with the deci…

How much Rails is left in the Twitter project today ?

Some of the frontend... I think it's out of the backend.

Re: Evan Williams on leaving Twitter

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Post by qq66 » Wed, Mar 30, 2011, 6:38 PM UTC

akamaka wrote: post #55

qq66 wrote: post #24

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It's clear that there have been a lot of power struggles at Twitter. It's not clear how much of this departure is voluntary (i.e., the departure itself may be voluntary, but the conditions leading to it might have been a loss of control). Finally, great companies have been built without their founders. Cisco and Intel lost/forced out their founders relatively early.

Intel lost or forced out its founders early?! Where did you get this from?

Founded by Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce, led to juggernaut status by Andy Grove (employee #3)