Biz Stone

Biz Stone
Born Isaac Stone
March 10, 1974 (1974-03-10) (age 37)
Residence Corte Madera, California, USA
Occupation creative director, software engineer, businessperson

Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone[1] (born March 10, 1974)[2] is a co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter, Inc and also helped to create and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and The Obvious Corporation, founded in June 2011 with his long time collaborators Evan Williams and Jason Goldman to focus on building systems that help people work together to improve the world. Stone currently serves as Chief Creative Officer at Obvious.

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Author

Stone has published two books about blogging, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2002) and Who Let The Blogs Out? (St Martins, 2004).[3] In addition to his long running personal blog, Stone has published an op-ed piece in The The Atlantic. .[4]

Recognition & Accomplishments

Stone, along with Evan Williams, was named 2009 Nerd of the Year by GQ magazine,[5] one of the Most Influential People in The World by TIME,[6] Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. Magazine,[7] and one of Vanity Fair (magazine)'s Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age.[8] Stone was honored with the International Center for Journalists' first Innovation Award in 2010.[9]

Stone holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Babson College,[10] and is a Fellow [11] at Oxford University. As a Fellow at Oxford University, Stone has debated at Oxford Union and won on the subject of whether or not entrepreneurs can affect positive change with regard to the world's biggest problems.[12]

Personal life

Stone graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[13] He continued his education at Northeastern University[14] Stone is a vegan,[15] which he became after visiting Farm Sanctuary, and is involved in causes including animal welfare, environmentalism, poverty, health and education.[16]

Biz lives in Marin County, California with his wife Livia.[17]

References

  1. ^ Biz Stone (2000-04-12). "Biz Stone:No Emails Today". http://www.bizstone.com/2000/04/no-emails-today-except-couple-work.html. Retrieved 2009-02-15. 
  2. ^ Stone, Biz. "Today is my birthday—I'm in my 30's!". Twitter. Twitter. http://www.twitter.com/biz/status/10295408614. Retrieved 2010-03-10. 
  3. ^ Stone, Biz. "About bizstone". Flickr. Yahoo!. http://flickr.com/people/biz/. Retrieved 2008-11-07. 
  4. ^ Stone, Biz (October 19, 2012). "Exclusive: Biz Stone on Twitter and Activism". The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/exclusive-biz-stone-on-twitter-and-activism/64772/. 
  5. ^ <2009 GQ Men of the Year>
  6. ^ Kutcher, Ashton (April 30, 2009). "The Twitter Guys". TIME Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893837_1894156,00.html. 
  7. ^ <The Entrepreneurs of the Decade: 2000 to 2009>
  8. ^ <The Vanity Fair 100>
  9. ^ Arteaga, Dawn. "Washington Post's David Ignatius and Twitter's Biz Stone To Be Honored at ICFJ Awards Dinner". ICFJ. ICFJ. http://icfj.org/node/27166. Retrieved 2011-09-29. 
  10. ^ <Biz Stone Ugrad Commencement Speaker>
  11. ^ <Biz Stone>
  12. ^ Malone, Michael (April 19, 2009). "The Twitter Revolution". WSJ. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124000817787330413.html. 
  13. ^ "Who should be the 2009 Bostonian of the Year?". The Boston Globe. December 14, 2009. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/galleries/2009/1220/BOTYpoll?pg=8. 
  14. ^ "Twitter's Biz Stone To Be Executive Fellow At UC Berkeley's Haas School". The Huffington Post. September 21, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/02/twitters-biz-stone-uc-berkeley-haas_n_946391.html. 
  15. ^ Dowd, Maureen (April 22, 2009). "To Tweet or Not to Tweet". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/opinion/22dowd.html. 
  16. ^ Evangelista, Benny (May 2, 2010). "Twitter's Ben Stone supports social causes". SFGate. http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-05-02/business/20882723_1_vegan-social-media-twitter-followers. 
  17. ^ Towle, Mimi (August 2010). "Biz Stone". Marin Magazine. http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/August-2010/Biz-Stone/. 

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