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Biz Stone
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Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and Twitter co-founder whose nonfiction book explores creativity, ingenuity, and lessons from his life and career.
Biography
Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone is an American entrepreneur born on March 10, 1974. He is a co-founder of Twitter and served as creative director at Xanga from 1999 to 2001. He also co-founded Jelly with Ben Finkel. Launched in 2014, Jelly was a search engine centered on visual imagery and discovery. Stone served as its CEO until Pinterest acquired it in 2017.
In his 2014 book, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind, Stone draws on his early life and work at Google and Twitter to discuss creativity and ingenuity. His account addresses creating opportunities, questioning conventional approaches, and the role of empathy in success. He also considers failure, vulnerability, ambition, and corporate culture.
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Books by Biz Stone
Things A Little Bird Told Me Confessions Of The Creative Mind
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind uses stories from Stone’s early life and careers at Google and Twitter to explore creativity and how to harness it. The book also discusses opportunity, empathy, failure, vulnerability, ambition, and corporate culture.