It’s been a big week for Twitter—yesterday the company’s initial public offering of stock opened trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $45 per share, raising 73 percent in the first day of trading. But for Nebraska native and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, the company’s IPO is just the beginning. Williams, who holds a 10.4 percent stake in the company, is Twitter’s largest individual shareholder, meaning that—at least on paper—the Clarks, Neb., native and University of Nebraska-Lincoln alum is well on his way to becoming more than a billionaire. With close to 57 million shares and a stake valued at $2.56 billion, according to Bloomberg, the former Twitter CEO now serves as a member of the company’s board of directors. Recently Williams founded blogging platform Medium. — Source: Lincoln Journal Star
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