Biz Stone

Guide Note

Biz Stone is the co-founder and creative director of Twitter. In the past he has worked at such companies as Blogger, Xanga, Odeo and Obvious. In early 2003 Blogger was acquired by Google.

Fast Facts

1. Birthdate: March 10, 1974
2. Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts
3. Full Name: Christopher Isaac Stone
4. Nickname: Genius
5. Lives in Berkeley, California
6. Has written two books: "Who Let the Blogs Out? A Hyperconnected Peek At The World of Weblogs" and "Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content"
7. Attended Northeastern University and University Of Massachusetts-Boston but did not graduate

Quote

Before working at Twitter, I was at a company called Obvious, which was a company that was formed when we acquired Odeo and Twitter, because Twitter was sort of a side project at Odeo. Before that, I was at Odeo which is a podcasting company, and I had left Google to join Odeo.At Google, I was working on Blogger because I had previously helped start a company called Xanga.com which was a social journaling/web blogging community site. So, I came from the blogging world; like a side step into the podcasting business for a little while, and then from that, worked on Twitter with Jack Dorsey. We recently – in April – spawned Twitter out into its own company. Biz Stone from ReadWriteTalk