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
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.
Constraint inspires creativity
People are watching TV, they're watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there's a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist,
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.
I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.
It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.