Biz Stone

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Biz Stone
Biz Stone.jpg
Born Christopher Isaac Stone
(1974-03-10) March 10, 1974 (age 50)
Residence Corte Madera, California, USA
Education Northeastern University (attended)
University of Massachusetts (attended)
Occupation Creative director, software engineer, businessperson
Net worth Increase US$200 million

Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone[1][2] (born March 10, 1974)[3] 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.[4]

Education

Stone graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[5] He attended, but did not graduate from, both Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Boston.[6]

Career

Aside from Twitter, Stone is an angel investor and advisor in the startup community having backed companies in a diversity of industries such as Square, Nest Labs, Beyond Meat, Medium, Workpop, Lyft and GoodFit. Stone is a board director at Beyond Meat, Medium, GoodFit, Workpop, and his newest startup, Jelly Industries.[citation needed]

Stone made his directorial debut working alongside Ron Howard and Canon USA to direct a short film as a part of Project Imaginat10n. Stone described the opportunity as a chance to scratch a long-time creative itch.[7] Stone is also executive producer on WIRED, a dramatic series set in the 70s about the birth of computer industry.[citation needed]

From 2003 to 2005, Stone was employed by Google.[8]

Awards and honors

Stone, along with Evan Williams, was named 2009 Nerd of the Year by GQ magazine,[9] one of the Most Influential People in The World by Time magazine,[10] Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine,[11] and one of Vanity Fair's Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age.[12] Stone was honored with the International Center for Journalists' first Innovation Award in 2010.[13]

Stone holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Babson College,[14] and is a Fellow [15] at Oxford University. [16]

High Point University recently announced via a tweet that Stone will be speaking at the school on January 21, 2016. He will speak about the "power of connection." During his visit Stone will participate in a question and answer session with High Point University president Nido Qubein. The presentation will be filmed by UNC-TV and will air at a later date as part of the “High Point University Presents” series. After the interview, Stone will meet in small groups with High Point University students studying communication, entrepreneurship and business. [17]

Published works

Stone has published two books about blogging, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2002) and Who Let The Blogs Out? (St Martins, 2004).[18] In addition to his long running personal blog, Stone has published an op-ed piece in The Atlantic.[19] In June 2012, Hachette's Grand Central Publishing and executive editor Ben Greenberg announced that Stone was writing a book called Things A Little Bird Told Me, which was published in April 2014.[20]

Personal life

Stone is a vegan,[21] which he became after visiting Farm Sanctuary, and is involved in causes including animal welfare, environmentalism, poverty, health and education.[22] Stone is an advisor and contributor to DonorsChoose, a nonprofit organization helping classrooms in need.[citation needed]

Stone lives in Marin County, California with his wife Livia and his son Jacob.[23] He and his wife founded and operate the Biz and Livia Stone Foundation, which supports education and conservation in California.[24]

References

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  7. ↑ Temple, James. August 29, 2012. Twitter's Biz Stone to direct short film
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  9. ↑ <2009 GQ Men of the Year>
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  11. ↑ <The Entrepreneurs of the Decade: 2000 to 2009>
  12. ↑ <The Vanity Fair 100>
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  14. ↑ <Biz Stone Ugrad Commencement Speaker>
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  17. ↑ http://www.highpoint.edu/blog/2015/11/twitter-co-founder-to-visit-hpu-in-january/
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  20. ↑ Heilpern, John (April 2014)"Out to Lunch with Biz Stone", Vanity Fair. Retreieved May 19, 2014.
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  24. ↑ Schawbel, Dan. June 14, 2012. Biz Stone on His Biggest Challenges, Influences and the Future of Social Media forbes.com

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