Biz Stone

Co-Founder
Twitter

Stone helped found things besides Twitter: Xanga, Blogger and Odeo. He worked for Google with Blogger. He once won a debate at Oxford Union.

Posts With Biz Stone

Viral Video: Biz Stone Talks Turkey (And Will Be Partying With Them Too!)

Happy Thanksgiving — this time for turkeys and not the people who want to eat them.
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Master of “Biz” Returns to School

Twitter Inc. co-founder Christopher “Biz” Stone dropped out of college — twice, from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Boston — yet this fall he’ll be advising M.B.A. students at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business on topics such as entrepreneurship and innovation.

Take the Money and Run? Twitter Shareholders Now Mulling Cash-Out Offer From DST.

To sell or not to sell any of their shares is the question facing Twitter stakeholders right now, as the second $400 million part of the company’s funding by Russia’s DST Global nears completion.
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Ex-Googlers Flock 35 Miles North to Twitter

A significant portion of Twitter employees — something like 13 percent — used to work at Google.
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The Last Twitter Founder Leaves, and Obvious.com Is Reborn

Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman — the former core leadership team of Twitter — have restarted their Internet idea incubator Obvious Corporation.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Talks About His New Photo Service, But Not About Profits

Twitter’s founders turned a side project into a service with worldwide reach and appeal. It’s Dick Costolo’s job to run that into a business. How’s that coming?
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Biz Punches Back at Fortune's Twitter-Bashing (Sort Of!)

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took time off from his myriad of witty talk show appearances to slap around a just-published Fortune story that was titled–get it?–”Trouble@ Twitter.” Was it a knockout?

No First Birthday Party for Twitter's Chirp Conference This Year

One year ago this week, Twitter held its first developer conference, Chirp. But amid recent management shake-ups at the company, the event is not on the calendar yet for 2011.

How to Get Verified on Twitter

Easy! Work for Howard Stern, and get him to get Biz Stone to do it.

Twitter Really, Really Likes TV

Biz Stone stops by Conan O’Brien to celebrate Twitter’s fifth birthday. He’s gotten very good on camera! The real story is offstage, though, where Twitter is trying to integrate itself into the very lucrative world of TV ads–somehow.

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Viral Video: Biz Stone Gets Couric-ed