Biz Stone
Biz Stone was born in San Francisco, California, United States on March 10th, 1974 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 50, Biz Stone biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone (born March 10, 1974) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Twitter, among other Internet-based services.
Biz was the creative director at Xanga from 1999–2001.
Stone co-founded 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 was Jelly’s CEO until its acquisition by Pinterest in 2017.
On May 16, 2017, Biz Stone announced he was returning to Twitter Inc.
in an unannounced role.
Education
Stone graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Boston, but did not graduate from either.
Personal life
Stone is an active philanthropist, and is involved in causes including animal rights, veganism, environmentalism, poverty, health and education. Stone is an advisor and contributor to DonorsChoose, a nonprofit organization helping classrooms in need.
Stone lives in Marin County, California, with his wife Livia and his son Jacob. He and his wife founded and operate the Biz and Livia Stone Foundation, which supports education and conservation in California.
Career
Stone is an angel investor and advisor in the startup industry supporting companies in a variety of sectors, including Square, Slack, Medium, Nest, Beyond Meat, Pinterest, Intercom, and Faraday, aside from Twitter. Stone is a board director for Beyond Meat, Medium, Polaroid Swing, Workpop, and Jelly Industries. Stone is the Chairman of Polaroid Swing.
As part of Project Imaginat10n, Stone made his directorial debut while collaborating with Ron Howard and Canon USA to produce Evermore. Stone called the opportunity a way to scratch a long-awaited creative itch. Stone, as well as Natalie Portman, are an advisor to Zoic Studios and an Executive Producer of the documentary Eating Animals.
Stone spent his time at Google from 2003 to 2005.
Stone declared his intention to return to Twitter in May 2017.