Code/Media 2015: Twitter and Medium Founder Ev Williams

Ev Williams built two of the most important publishing companies of the digital age: Blogger and Twitter. Can he do it a third time? Medium seems straightforward to Williams. But the split personality of the company — sometimes it’s a do-it-yourself publishing platform, sometimes it’s a digital magazine published by people Williams pays — takes some work to get across. Interviewed by Kara Swisher.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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