Biz Stone

Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone (born March 10, 1974) is an American entrepreneur, best known for having co-founded Twitter among other Internet-based services. His first startup was Xanga in 1999. Stone co-founded his latest venture, 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 is Jelly’s CEO. 2Education Stone graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended, but did not graduate from, both Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Boston. 2Career Aside from Twitter, Stone is an angel investor and advisor in the startup community having backed companies in a diversity of industries such as Square, Slack, Medium, Nest, Beyond Meat, Pinterest, Intercom, and Faraday. Stone is a board director at Beyond Meat, Medium, Polaroid Swing, Workpop, and Jelly Industries. Stone is Chairman of Polaroid Swing. Stone made his directorial debut working alongside Ron Howard and Canon USA to direct a short film, Evermore, as a part of Project Imaginat10