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
Biz Stone quotes about
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.
If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
I've seen people twitter in haiku only.
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.