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Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online
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EVAN WILLIAMS
BY RYAN
TATE: That’s what he told the gathered tech
heads at the recent XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon, and while he may
have said this with tongue partly in cheek, he spent the next 30 minutes
unloading his unified theory of the global computer network, an
interpretation formed after 20 years of hard thinking — to say nothing of
his experience creating seminal internet companies Blogger and Twitter.
In his speech, Williams explained what the
internet is, how it works, and how to get rich from it. Truth be told,
Williams is not the best public speaker, but his message was clear: At a
time when so many internet entrepreneurs are running around Silicon Valley
trying to do something no one else has ever done, Williams believes that the
real trick is to find something that’s tried and true — and to do it better.
It’s a speech that should serve as a signpost, a bit of much-needed
direction for the Valley’s younger generation.
The bottom line, Williams said, is that the
internet is “a giant machine designed to give people what they want.” It’s
not a utopia. It’s not magical. It’s simply an engine of convenience. Those
who can tune that engine well — who solve basic human problems with greater
speed and simplicity than those who came before — will profit immensely.
Those who lose sight of basic human needs — who want to give people the next
great idea — will have problems.
“We often think of the internet enables you
to do new things,” Williams said. “But people just want to do the same
things they’ve always done.
In 1994, Williams was a Nebraska college
dropout selling tutorial videos to help people get onto the net. In those
videos, he described the global computer network as “a puzzle comprised of
three things: Computers, information, and people.” But he no longer sees it
that way.
After leaving Twitter in 2011 and helping to
incubate, among other things, the blog network Medium, Williams found
himself rethinking his original formulation. Computers have proliferated and
diversified, in size and function, to the point of being unremarkable.
Information has become similarly abundant, rendering the term unsatisfyingly
generic. And after 20 years, the types of people and groups you find online
are basically identical to the people and groups you find in the physical
world. What’s now important are the connections between the people and the
machines.
“There are hardware connections, then there
are all these interactions involved with data and software,” Williams says.
“And if you look at any big internet thing, you see it’s basically a big
hive of connections. A Follow is a connection. A Like is a connection.
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