Biz Stone

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.

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

• Current projects:
  • Co-Founder and Creative Director, Twitter, Inc.
• Past Projects:
  • Executive, Obvious, LLC
  • Director of Community, Odeo, Inc.
  • Senior Specialist, Blogger at Google Inc.
  • Creative Director, Xanga, Inc.
  • Designer, Little, Brown and Co.