^ 'Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Joins Workpop Board as the Company Expands to New Markets'.^ 'Twitter's Biz Stone To Be Executive Fellow At UC Berkeley's Haas School'.^ 'Who should be the 2009 Bostonian of the Year?'.'Today is my birthday-I'm in my 30's!' (Tweet) – via Twitter. He and his wife founded and operate the Biz and Livia Stone Foundation, which supports education and conservation in California. Stone lives in Marin County, California, with his wife Livia and his son Jacob. Stone is an advisor and contributor to DonorsChoose, a nonprofit organization helping classrooms in need. Stone is an active philanthropist, and is involved in causes including animal rights, veganism, environmentalism, poverty, health and education. In addition to his long running personal blog and Medium articles, Stone has published op-eds for The Atlantic and The Times. Stone has published three books, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2002), Who Let The Blogs Out? (St Martins, 2004), and Things A Little Bird Told Me (Grand Central, 2014). Stone is an Executive Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. Upon delivering the 2011 commencement, Babson College awarded Stone their highest honorary degree, a Doctor of Laws. Stone is a visiting fellow at Oxford University and a member of the Senior Common Room at Exeter College, Oxford. In 2015, Stone’s Twitter won an Emmy and Stone received CIPR's most prestigious accolade for leadership at the forefront of developing new forms of media. In 2014, The Economist recognized Stone with an Innovation Award. magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Decade, Time listed him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and GQ named him Nerd of the Year, along with Evan Williams.

Stone has been honored with the International Center for Journalists Innovation Award, Inc. Awards and honors Īlong with Jack Dorsey, Stone holds the patent for inventing Twitter. In May 2017, Stone announced his intention to return to Twitter. įrom 2003 to 2005, Stone held a senior leadership role at Google. Stone is also an advisor to Zoic Studios, and an Executive Producer of the documentary Eating Animals along with Natalie Portman. Stone described the opportunity as a chance to scratch a long-time creative itch. Stone made his directorial debut working alongside Ron Howard and Canon USA to direct a short film, Evermore, as a part of Project Imaginat10n. Stone is a board director at Beyond Meat, Medium, Polaroid Swing, Workpop, and Jelly Industries. Career Īside from Twitter, Stone is an angel investor and advisor in the startup community having backed companies in diverse industries such as Square, Slack, Medium, Nest, Beyond Meat, Pinterest, Intercom, and Faraday. He attended Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Boston, but did not graduate from either. Stone graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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