Big Tech can avoid ‘existential crisis’, Twitter co-founder says


  • TECH
  • Friday, 09 Nov 2018

Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter and chief executive officer of Medium, speaks on the centre stage of the 2018 edition of the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon on November 8, 2018. (Photo by FRANCISCO LEONG / AFP)

Tumbling market values, increased regulatory scrutiny, data privacy scandals, mass employee protests over corporate mismanagement – those are just some of the scars on the US technology industry this year. 

But Twitter Inc co-founder Ev Williams is confident Silicon Valley can avoid an existential crisis. 

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