10 Super Successful Cofounders And Why Their Partnerships Worked
#9 Evan Williams and Biz Stone
Company: Twitter
It is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read text based messages up to 140 characters. It is credited in bringing celebrities and common people to same platform.
Year Founded: 2006
How their partnership was formed:
"We started out as rivals but became great friends," Stone explained to AllThingsD. "We really respected each other. When Evan left [Google for Odeo.com] I was like, 'What?? You're leaving me?' So I followed him."
The pair was approached by Jack Dorsey, founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company, an Odeo engineer with an idea. The daylong brainstorming session later resulted in twitter.
Why their partnership works:
Both have common verve for blogging business and are friends who stick together to achieve success of twitter.
