Biz Stone is a pioneering entrepreneur, creative director, and co-founder of Twitter, the global social media platform that revolutionized communication. His work has been singularly focused on developing collaborative web systems that are freely accessible to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Over the past decade, he has established himself as a key figure in the evolution of the social web, with his influence recognized by TIME and Vanity Fair.
As a progenitor of the early social web, Stone began his career as an Internet entrepreneur in 1999 and went on to work for Google before co-founding Twitter in 2006. In 2011, alongside long-time collaborators, he co-founded The Obvious Corporation with a clear mission: to build systems that help people work together to improve the world, extending his focus beyond technology to social impact.
Stone is an adamant believer that when we help others, we also help ourselves. He advocates for a new way of doing business with a higher level of ambition, insisting that selflessness is the path to delivering deeper meaning in work and thereby placing value before profit. This philosophy underpins his commitment to systems that deliver altruistic benefit.
As a serial entrepreneur, his endeavors continue to shape the digital landscape. In 2013, he co-founded and served as CEO of Jelly, a revolutionary search engine mobile application. His presentations provide audiences with a unique, firsthand perspective on technological innovation, the future of communication, and the strategic vision required to build successful, world-changing, and ethically driven technology platforms.