Biz Stone Biz Stone Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone (born March 10, 1974) is an American entrepreneur who 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. On May 16, 2017, Biz Stone announced he is returning to Twitter Inc. in an unannounced role. Stone graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended both
Jelly (app) launching a native mobile app called Jelly. On April 1, 2013, Biz Stone wrote the company's first blog post, giving only very vague information about the product. A "TechCrunch" writer inferred that the product would be targeted at do-gooders on the go. Other news publications also published speculation about the app. In May 2013, while still in stealth mode, Jelly raised Series A funding from Spark Capital, SV Angel, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman, Al Gore, Bono, and others. The app release was announced, thereby bringing Jelly out of stealth mode, on January 7, 2014. The announcement was picked