Biz Stone

Biz Stone

Co-Founder - Twitter

Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Twitter. A progenitor of social media, Stone has been developing large-scale systems that facilitate the open exchange of information for more than fifteen years. Today, Biz is Co-Founder and CEO of Jelly Industries - known for Super.me, a service for expressing emphatic statements that become small works of art.

 

Biz has been honoured with the International Center for Journalism Innovation Award; INC Magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Decade, TIME listed him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World and GQ named him Nerd of the Year. In 2014, The Economist recognised Stone with their annual Innovation Award. In 2015, Stone’s Twitter won an Emmy.

 

Biz is a Fellow at the University of Oxford, a filmmaker and an author. Having started out as an artist, Biz stresses creativity, learning from mistakes and celebrating the triumph of humanity with a little help from technology. He lives near San Francisco with his wife Livia and son Jacob.