{"id":14319,"date":"2019-02-23T02:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T02:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/twitter-co-founder-ev-williams-to-step-down-from-the-companys-board.html"},"modified":"2019-02-23T02:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T02:41:33","slug":"twitter-co-founder-ev-williams-to-step-down-from-the-companys-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-co-founder-ev-williams-to-step-down-from-the-companys-board.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter co-founder Ev Williams to step down from the company\u2019s board"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m very lucky to have served on the @<\/s>Twitter <\/b><\/a>board for 12 years (ever since there was a board),\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s been overwhelmingly interesting, educational\u2014and, at times, challenging\u2026 Thank you, @<\/s>jack<\/b><\/a> and @<\/s>biz<\/b><\/a> for starting this crazy company with me\u2014and continuing to make it better and better. And to my fellow board members, new and old\u2014some of the most thoughtful people I\u2019ve ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams, the founder and CEO of online publishing platform Medium and co-founder and partner at Obvious Ventures, <\/a> served as Twitter\u2019s chief executive from 2008 to 2010 following Jack Dorsey\u2019s, <\/a> Twitter\u2019s current CEO, original stint as CEO. Williams was succeeded by Dick Costolo, <\/a> who after a five-year stint at the helm, relinquished the throne back to Dorsey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twitter\u2019s board of directors includes Bret Taylor, <\/a> president and chief product officer at Salesforce; Debra Lee, <\/a> president and CEO of BET Networks; and executive chairman Omid Kordestani.<\/p>\n

Twitter\u2019s stock closed up 3 percent Friday, trading at nearly $32 a piece for a market cap of north of $24 billion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m very lucky to have served on the @Twitter board for 12 years (ever since there was a board),\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s been overwhelmingly interesting, educational\u2014and, at times, challenging\u2026 Thank <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,7,14,15,6,12,11],"class_list":["post-14319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-update","tag-computer-news","tag-downloads","tag-microsoft-download-news","tag-networking-updates","tag-technology-update","tag-wordpress-plugin-download","tag-wordpress-theme-download"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t