The one thing that is very interesting about Evan Williams is the ability to pull off TWO possible companies that were Google aquire capable. Blogger he already sold. Twitter he may.
Another way to look at it is, Twitter may have been already acquired by Google had not Evan Williams already had one company bought by Google. This may have stopped it from getting to the point it is now judging by some companies success after that event.
One major success is probably lucky, TWO is probably skill, or else a complete craziness by consumers. But what it is looking like is Evan Williams has created 2 successful companies in one bubble and coming out the end of the bubble it appears twitter might have some of the best value built in.
Yeah, after reading that article and watching Schmidt on Charlie Rose, I feel that he's a little out of touch with technology. His idea of monetizing youtube involves micropayments of a few cents per view, and his idea of the 'next thing at google' is some weird wikipedia mashup on mobile phones.
After seeing that headline (I'll admit I skipped the article) - I figured that Google was either making a play for twitter behind the scenes - or had been rebuffed by them.
Another way to look at it is, Twitter may have been already acquired by Google had not Evan Williams already had one company bought by Google. This may have stopped it from getting to the point it is now judging by some companies success after that event.
One major success is probably lucky, TWO is probably skill, or else a complete craziness by consumers. But what it is looking like is Evan Williams has created 2 successful companies in one bubble and coming out the end of the bubble it appears twitter might have some of the best value built in.