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
When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.
You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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.
When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.
Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.
The future of marketing is philanthropy,
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.
We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.