Evan Williams started Pyra to build a collaboration tool but built a blog as a side project to be used internally. He introduced it to the public under the name Blogger and it became a hit.
He faced many setbacks and had to let go all his employees and his future looked bleak.
Yet he kept pushing and later became successful. He later sold his company to Google for a rumored $30+ million .
He later went on to start Twitter.
What you could learn from this episode:
- Why he dropped out of college.
- Did he work without quitting his job.
- How they discovered the idea for blogger by accident.
- How they decided on one product idea when they had 2 ideas.
- Who were the first initial users
- When every employee and his partners left him and what he did to survive.
- A unique way of raising money when they ran out of money.
- How he handled the criticism about him.
