Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur known best as co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly but also helped develop Xanga, Blogger, and Odeo. A progenitor of social media, Stone has been developing large scale systems that facilitate the open exchange of information for over two decades. Stone is an investor, board director, public speaker, and philanthropist.

TIME listed him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” The Economist recognized him with their annual “Innovation Award,” INC Magazine named him “Entrepreneur of the Decade,” CIPR honoured him for “Leadership in The Forefront of Developing New Media,” In 2019 Vanity Fair featured him as a “Bright Spark,” and GQ Magazine saw fit to crown Biz as “Nerd of the Year.”

In addition to being a technologist, Biz is a Visiting Fellow at The University of Oxford, a filmmaker, film producer, and has authored three books. Having started out as an artist, Biz stresses the importance of creativity, learning from mistakes, and celebrating the triumph of humanity with a little help from technology. Stone lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Livia and son Jacob.

In addition to his long running personal blog, Stone has published an op-ed piece in The Atlantic.

Biz has been honoured with the International Center for Journalism Innovation Award,

INC Magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Decade,

GQ named him Nerd of the Year.

In 2014, The Economist recognized Stone with their annual Innovation Award.

In 2015, Stone’s Twitter won an Emmy.

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