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Jelly (app) Jelly (app) Jelly was an app that served as a Q&A platform, created by Jelly Industries, a search-engine company founded and led by Biz Stone, one of Twitter's co-founders. In March 2017, Jelly was acquired by Pinterest for an undisclosed amount. Jelly differentiates itself from other Q&A platforms such as Quora and ChaCha by relying on visual imagery to steer people to getting better answers from within and outside their social networks. In particular, it encourages people to use photos to ask questions. "AllThingsD" reported on March 28, 2013 that, according to sources, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was close to