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Biz Stone Biography

Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone (born March 10, 1974) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Twitter, among other Internet-based services. His first startup was Xanga in 1999. Stone co-founded his latest venture, Jelly, with Ben Finkel. Jelly was launched in 2014 and is described as a new kind of search engine with the core assumption that for every question there is a person with the answer. Stone is Jelly’s CEO. On May 16, 2017, Biz Stone announced he is returning to Twitter Inc. in an unannounced role.

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We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.

Cities, City, Coordinated, Real, Roaming Around, Time

There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.

Ideas, Input, People, Social, Thoughts

I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity.

Creativity, Focus, Inspire, Thinking, Twitter

Constraint inspires creativity

Constraint, Constraints, Creativity, Inspire, Inspires

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

Amazing, Beautiful, Creativity, Mean, Simple

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.

Cycle, Interesting, Knock, Pedestal, Way

I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me. " He was like, "The box guy?"

Art, Company, Jobs, Like, New York, York

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

Biggest, Dream, Firsts, Making, Steps, True

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.

Ideas, Mean, People, Ways, Write, Writing

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Disappointing, Position, Somebody, Leadership

When you think about email or IMing, why aren't you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you're online, why aren't you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there's not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it's fine.

Avatar, Couple, Everybody, Online, Thinking, Writing

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

Belief, Failing, Invested, Personal Beliefs, Working

We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren't as interested in that.

People, Running, Same, Technology

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

Communicate, Down, People, Service, Way, Ways

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

Macs, Pretty, Used, Wells, Younger

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

Good, Hands, People, Possibility, Things

I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.

Cells, Drive, Know, Messaging, Phones, Thinking

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

Challenges, Creative, Make, Provocative, Wake, Wakes You

If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

Hate, Hating, Loving, Passionate, People, Product

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

College, Design, Start, Thing

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