® Benjamín Juárez
just add #askjelly to your Twitter questions. Fellow duties at both Oxford and Berkeley respectively and authored the humorous memoir, Things A Little Bird Told Me.
Beyond the narrative of inhabiting rare entrepreneurial air, what’s most personally interesting about Biz is that at his core, he really is an artist. A true artist.
richroll
Plantpowered ultra athlete; wellness advocate; family guy. Named one of the 25 Fittest Guys in the World by Men's Fitness. Best-selling author of FINDING ULTRA.
Nov 7, 2016 | "3 min read"
Biz Stone on Conscious Capitalism & Leveraging Technology To Unite The Human Experience
“If you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.” — Biz Stone
Imagine co-creating a tool so powerful, it literally changes the world.
Biz Stone is that kind of guy.
Most people know Biz as one of the co-founders of Twitter. Together [@biz](http://twitter.com/biz) [@jack](http://www.twitter.com/jack) and [@ev](http://twitter.com/ev) created the social media behemoth that seismically impacted how we connect with the world, share information, exchange opinions, consume news, and participate in the daily global conversation.
Ironically, Biz never aspired to become successful in business. A most unlikely entrepreneur, he spent his early years as an artist, crafting book covers for a Boston publishing house.
Biz’s initial interest in Silicon Valley was sparked not by the potential for riches but rather by idealism — technology as potential energy to greater unite the human experience. Bring people closer. And cultivate global cooperation.
An early evangelist of blogging as a vehicle to serve his romantic vision, Biz jumped when Ev Williams invited him to join Blogger, the networked blogging platform Ev had built and sold to Google.
Ultimately, Biz walked away from Google. Leaving millions on the table, he leaped into the treacherous unknown of start ups, following Ev to podcast precursor Odeo. In one of the greatest pivots in Silicon Valley lore, Odeo would morph into Twitter. Twitter would permanently change culture. And along with Ev, Biz would later advance to co-found Medium, the über-popular, user-friendly blogging platform of the moment. But I guess you already know that if you are reading this — very meta.
Today brings us to Jelly, a new kind of multi-platform search engine Biz recently launched that allows you to ask questions and get timely, helpful answers (as opposed to an index of websites) from the people most well suited to intelligently respond. It’s fun and surprisingly effective. Give it a try by downloading the iOS app, visiting askjelly.com/richroll, or just add #askjelly to your Twitter questions.
Among his accolades, INC. Magazine named Biz Entrepreneur of the Decade. TIME listed him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, GQ named him Nerd of the Year, and he’s one of Vanity Fair’s Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age. Despite never graduating college, today Biz serves up Visiting and Executive Fellow duties at both Oxford and Berkeley respectively and authored the humorous memoir, Things A Little Bird Told Me.
Beyond the narrative of inhabiting rare entrepreneurial air, what’s most personally interesting about Biz is that at his core, he really is an artist. A true artist. Not one for the sexy stories of Silicon Valley board room intrigue, what excites Biz most is leveraging his fertile, creative mind to serve humanity. To make the world better. More connected. More empathetic.
This week on the podcast I host Biz for a fun, jocular conversation about conscious capitalism, the future of tech and artificial intelligence. It’s about living in alignment with one’s values. It’s about the future of one man’s dedication to cultivating greater human cooperation. And it’s a conversation about what it takes to change the world. Like, indubitably.
Oh yeah — he’s also super funny.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the conversation. Give Biz a shout on Twitter at [@biz](http://twitter.com/biz){.markup--anchor .markup--p-anchor} and let him know what you think.
Download the full interview with Biz on iTunes
Check out Jelly by visiting askjelly.com/richroll
Also, follow me on Twitter
Peace + Plants,
Rich
Rich Roll is an ultra-endurance athlete and author of the #1 bestselling memoir Finding Ultra ****** & lifestyle primer ****** The Plantpower Way. Each week he delves deep with thought leaders and positive change makers on the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast.
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Plantpowered ultra athlete; wellness advocate; family guy. Named one of the 25 Fittest Guys in the World by Men's Fitness. Best-selling author of FINDING ULTRA.
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