Biz Stone, one of Twitter’s four co-founders, announced Tuesday he’s returning to the social media company after a 6-year absence. Stone [pictured above] had worked on other projects, including founding Jelly, a human-powered search and discovery engine, which was acquired by Pinterest in March.
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My top focus will be to guide the company culture, that energy, that feeling, Stone wrote in a Medium post. It’s important that everyone understands the whole story of Twitter and each of our roles in that story.
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Stone said he will be filling the ‘Biz-shaped hole’ he left at Twitter.
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You might even say the job description includes being Biz Stone, he added.
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Stone said he was going to take a really sweet gig elsewhere but Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey persuaded him to come back after a company town hall event.
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When I stood next to Jack addressing the crowd of employees, I felt the energy, and I was overcome with emotion, Stone wrote in his post. I realized in that moment that Twitter was the most important work of my life.
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Dorsey posted that he was excited to have Biz’s energy and heart back at Twitter in a tweet Tuesday. Dorsey is also running Square, a financial services and merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company
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San Francisco-based Twitter was founded in 2006 and has 313 million active users, according to its website.
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Last month, Ev Williams, another Twitter co-founder, announced plans to sell as much as 30 percent of his stake in the company to fund other investments, but remains a member of its board.
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Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain left last year, while Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger and product gurus Noah Pepper and Jinen Kamdar left before that.
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The fourth Twitter co-founder, Noah Glass, is CEO of Olo, a mobile and online food ordering platform for restaurants.
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