Filed under: Google (GOOG), Private equity, Next large thing, Entrepreneurs
Evan Williams has a knack for creating the “next big thing.” Back in the late 1990s, he developed the prototype for blogging, which became Blogger.com. Williams sold it to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) in 2004.
A few years later, Williams struck gold again: he started Twitter.
And, it looks like this one is going to be a mega blockbuster. According to a report in Techcrunch, it appears that Twitter is raising $50 million — at a whopping $1 billion valuation. The company’s last round came in February, at a valuation of $250 million.
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