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
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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.
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
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.
What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we're doing it now. You know? Maybe that's a way to go. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone.
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.
Creativity comes from constraint.