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 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,
We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.
There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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.
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.
I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.
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.