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
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better,
A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
The future of marketing is philanthropy,
Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.
If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.
People first. Technology second.
There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful.
At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas