Biz Stone to scratch a long-time creative itch. Stone is also an advisor to Zoic Studios, and an Executive Producer of the documentary, "Eating Animals", along with Natalie Portman. From 2003 to 2005, Stone was employed by Google. In May 2017, Stone announced his intention to return to Twitter. Along with Jack Dorsey, Stone holds the patent for inventing Twitter. Stone has been honored with the International Center for Journalists Innovation Award, "Inc." 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,
Jack Dorsey company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web. His other projects and ideas at this time included networks of medical devices and a "frictionless service market". In July 2000, building on dispatching and inspired in part by LiveJournal and by AOL Instant Messenger, he had the idea for a Web-based realtime status/short message communication service. When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software's user status output could be shared easily among friends. He approached Odeo, which at the time happened to be interested in text messaging. Dorsey and Biz Stone