“I’m not ready to talk about what I have planned next,” wrote Williams. But “it's time to pick up a whiteboard marker and think fresh. There are other problems/opportunities in the world that need attention, and there are other individuals I'd love to get the opportunity to work with and learn from.”
Williams, 38, is one of the Bay Area’s best-known entrepreneurs. His first company, Pyra Labs, created the prototypical blogging tool, Blogger, which sold to Google in 2003. He then founded a podcasting venture, Odeo, followed by a kind of mini-incubator called Obvious Corp. It was in 2006 that Obvious Corp created the service known as Twitter , which incorporated as its own company the following year.
It is no secret that Williams has had a contentious relationship with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, whom he displaced as CEO in 2008. Williams himself stepped down as Twitter CEO in 2010 to make way for Dick Costolo. At the time, it was said that Williams was stepping down to focus on product strategy. But little came of that move, and yesterday Twitter confirmed that Dorsey — still Chairman of the company — would be taking a more hands-on role in product strategy. In the blog post, Williams admits that “my mind started to wander.”
According to the New York Times, Williams has been spending a lot of time at Lake Tahoe mulling his next role. Today’s blog post is the first hint at what that might be — and it is extremely short on details. There’s a lot of praise and nostalgia for his colleagues at Twitter, and a prediction that the service will become 8220;bigger and better”...
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