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Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode, and you're listening to Recode Decode,

a podcast about Silicon Valley's key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.

This is our special weekly segment with host Peter Kafka, Recode Senior Editor and producer of the Code Media Conference.

Joining Peter each week are some of his favorite movers and shakers in the media world.

Peter, this week you talked to Ev Williams, who was a speaker at the Code Media Conference last year,

and is one of the co-founders of Twitter, but you're talking about Medium, correct?

We're going to talk to him about Medium, probably talked about Twitter, maybe we'll talk to him about BlogSpot,

which is his first company. Ev has done three different companies around the idea of communicating ideas to lots of people.

So I guess he's got kind of a wild hair about that idea. So we'll talk to him about that and the rest of the world.

You mentioned you talked to him in February of Code Media that was one of my favorite interviews at that event.

It's a great interview. So we want to sort of replicate that.

And what do you think the big topics for him are right now?

I think he still needs to explain to both readers and users, and maybe even investors, what he wants Medium to be when it cruts up.

It's only a couple years old, I think it's still sort of vague and a lot of people's minds.

And I think he's trying to figure out how to get more people to use his platform,

whether it's to read stuff or to write stuff.

Right, fantastic. Let's have a listen.

Thanks.

I'm here with Ev Williams, who founded Blogger and co-founded Twitter, and now the founder of a third company, Medium.

Hi, Ev. Hi. Thanks for joining us.

My pleasure.

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