Annaliza E. Nebres

OOC

Case study 8

Evan Williams

(Cofounder, Pyra labs)(Blogger.com)

            Pyra intended to build a web based project management tool and Evan William was one of the cofounder. He develops blogger to manage his personal web blog. Blogger grew rapidly. Blogger. Com didn’t generate a lot of revenue at first. As bubble deflated in 2001. Pyra seemed near death. By 2003, blogger had one million registered users. William left goggle in 2004 to co found a podcasting called Odeo.

            William was an entrepreneur. He started a couple of other companies. I started Pyra because he had been doing internet stuff for about 5 years. He dropped out his college because he believes that he doesn’t need a degree and he doesn’t like to get a job with other people. Then he moved to California to take a job with O’ Reilly. He also works at Intel and HP.

Pyra was a web based project management or collaboration, which he had been interested for a long time. Pyra was personal Project information management system that builds projects for clients around their intranets and help them organize their work and personal information. He has a friend who helps him build Pyra, Meg Hourihan, she was a management consultant. He contracted many companies and one of them was HP.

Blogger.com that time wasn’t really paying attention that time in the industry so they felt that they needed to make it a lot better and spend a lot more time on it. They don’t know if Blogger will go out of the market because they don’t think there was a business there. But blogging was going to dramatically impact the web. They had an argument if they could charge money from the consumers just to have Blogger Pro. But in late 2000, they built version with many more features and they never felt that they could charge money for it.

Like the blog they hosted, they had advertising, he created a mechanism to charge people to take their adds off and made money. He did more things like that and got to a point of paying the hosting bills. One time he needed to rent a desk, he posted it on hid blog and one company, Bigstep offered him free desk and they started to work together. From there, he designed and launched the Blogger API and then 2002; he finally launched blogger pro, the paid-for version of Blogger.

The things I’ve learned, first don’t easily give up if things aren’t end up the way you want it to be. Quitting is not a solution. As long as you’re thinking of something to do to solve your problem you will come up with a solution and some people will help you and pull you up. Then if you are in your darkest part of your life your true friends will remain and they’re more than an employee.