Co-Founder at Obvious Ventures · Joined 2014
View Live Interactive Profile →Ev Williams co-founded Blogger, sold it to Google, then co-founded Twitter and later founded Medium, building three of the internet's most consequential publishing platforms before turning to venture capital. He co-founded Obvious Ventures in 2014 with James Joaquin and Vishal Vasishth on a specific, non-obvious premise: that companies solving humanity's biggest problems profitably, not through charity, would become the most valuable businesses of the coming decades. That thesis, organized around planetary health, human health, and economic health, produced an early 9% stake in Beyond Meat ahead of its 2019 IPO, a 2015 investment in Planet Labs ahead of its 2021 SPAC listing, and a Series A bet on Recursion Pharmaceuticals. Williams remains Chairman of Medium while continuing to co-lead Obvious, which has playfully closed its five funds at mathematically significant numbers, from $123,456,789 to Euler's number, $271,828,182.