Biz Stone
Biz Stone
Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone is a co-founder of Twitter, Inc and also helped to create and launch Xanga, Odeo, The Obvious Corporation and Medium. In 2012, Stone co-founded a start-up called Jelly Industries where he serves as CEO. The release of the Jelly app, a Q&A platform that relies on images, was officially announced in January 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth10 March 1974
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.
Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.
Creativity is a renewable resource.
Embrace your constraints.