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Christopher Isaac " Biz " Stone [1] [2] (born March 10, 1974) [3] is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of Twitter, among other technology companies. Stone was the creative director at Xanga from 1999 to 2001. [4] Stone co-founded Jelly, with Ben Finkel.
Nov 5, 2021 · Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, on being an investor that never lets go. The social media pioneer’s firm is chasing investments that have no expiry date. Biz Stone, the co-founder of social...
May 3, 2024 · Biz Stone, American entrepreneur who, with Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, founded (2006) Twitter, an online microblogging service. Stone also helped launch (2014) the search app Jelly and served as an adviser to several Web companies. Learn more about his life and career.
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- From Christopher to Biz. What kind of parent would name their child Biz? While, not The Stones. Biz’s actual name is Christopher Isaac Stone. However, according to a post on his official blog, while trying to phonetically ear his name through his father’s Boston accent, he thought he heard his name pronounced as “Biz-ah-bah.”
- He Was Inspired by Wile E. Coyote. Stone was in a serious rut in 2002. His first startup, Xanga, was fledgling, and he was in severe credit card debt, so he left New York City and moved into his mother’s basement in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
- Was a College Dropout, Now He’s a Fellow. Biz didn’t drop-out of college once, but twice from the Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
- He’s Got Friends in High Places. When Biz’s startup Jelly closed on it’s Series A funding with Spark Capital and SV Angel on May 16th 2003, there were some very high-profile investors.
Apr 1, 2014 · Biz Stone: Having to live in your Mom's basement in your 20's is definitely a strong motivator to get something else going on in your life but I think it's different from the entrepreneurial ...
Apr 1, 2015 · Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter. A progenitor of social… · Experience: Jelly Industries, Inc. · Location: Palo Alto · 219 connections on LinkedIn.
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Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur known best as co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly but also helped develop Xanga, Blogger, and Odeo. A progenitor of social media, Stone has been...
