Biz Stone Biography
Biz Stone is an American Businessman who is a co-founder of Twitter alongside Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Noah Glass. He is also known for being the Creative Director at Xanga from 1999 to 2001.Biz real names are Christopher Isaac Stone.
He co-founded Jelly alongside Ben Finkel launched in 2014 and later became its CEO until Pinterest took it in 2017. He publicly made an announcement on May 16, 2017, that he was coming back to Twitter but didn’t disclose his roles.
Biz Stone Education
He went to the University of Wellesley High School in Massachusetts, where he first graduated. Stone later went to Northern University and the University of Massachusets in Boston but never graduated from any unknown reasons.
Biz Stone Career
Investments
Apart from being a Twitter co-founder, he has also invested with angel has been an advisor for companies such as Square, Slack, Medium, Nest, Beyond Meat, Pinterest, Intercom and Faraday. He is also one of the board members for Beyond Meat, Medium, Polaroid, Workpop and Jelly industries. He is also the acting chairperson of Polaroid Swing.
He is the movie director of Evermore film alongside Ron Howard, being a part of the Imaginat10n project which he described as a longtime creative itch. Biz is also an advisor to Zoic Studios and an Executive Producer of Eating Animals documentary alongside Natalie Portman. He has also worked for Google for two years, from 2003 to 2005.
Biz Stone Family
After doing our research, details about his parents are not available and it is also not known if he has any siblings.
Biz Stone Wife
Stone is married to his lovely wife Livia Stone. The couple tied knots in 2007 are blessed with one son, Jacob. He is the co-founder of the Biz and Livia Foundation which supports education and conservation in California.
Biz Body Measurements
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Biz Stone Net Worth
Biz Stone has an estimated net worth of $250 million from his successful career as an investor and a famous entrepreneur.
Biz Stone Books
- Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2002)
- Who Let The Blogs Out? (St Martins, 2004),
- Things A Little Bird Told Me (Grand Central, 2014).
Biz Stone Quotes
- When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
- Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
- Your goals should be bigger than your ego.
- Constraint inspires creativity.
- Opportunity is manufactured.
- Creativity is a renewable resource.
- There’s no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.“
- If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.
Biz Stone Awards
- Stone and Jack Dorsey are patent holders for inventing the most used social app, Twitter.
- The International Center of Journalists awarded him for the Innovation Award.
- Inc Magazine named him the Entrepreneur of the decade.
- Time included him on their list of 100 most influential people in the world.
- GQ named him Nerd of the year alongside Evan Williams
- The Economist recognized him with an innovation award in 2014.
- Stone’s Twitter won an Emmy in 2015 and he received CIPR’s most prestigious accolade for leadership at the forefront of developing new forms of media.
- In 2011, Babson College awarded Stone their highest honorary degree, a Doctor of Laws.
Frequently Asked Questions About Christopher Biz Stone
Who is Stone?
Stone is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter.
How old is Stone?
He is 45 years old as of 2019. Stone was born on March 10, 1974.
How tall is Stone?
Not available.
Is Biz Stone married?
Stone is married to his lovely wife Livia Stone.
How much is Stone worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $250 dollars which he has earned from his career as an entrepreneur.
How much does Stone make?
Not available.
Where does Stone live?
Stone lives in Marin County, California, the USA with his wife and son.
Is Stone-dead or alive?
Stone is alive and in good health.
Where is Stone now?
He is a Creative director, software engineer, businessperson and co-founder of Twitter.