Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone On What You Need In Order To Create a Highly Successful Startup

By Yitzi Weiner & Kelly Reeves

Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone On What You Need In Order To Create a Highly Successful Startup

…Another key thing is you have to really want to do what you’re doing. If you’re just trying to make a good business, and you’re not actually emotionally invested in what you are doing, it’s probably not going to work for you. But, if it’s something that you would really like to do for the next 10 years plus, and you really want to work on it, you’re more likely to be successful. And, it would be way better for your life, because if you enjoy what you’re doing, then you’re not craving all the other stuff as much because you just enjoy going to work.


At Web Summit’s Collision, we had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter, among several other technology companies. Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone was the creative director at Xanga from 1999 to 2001. He co-founded Jelly — a search engine driven by visual imagery and

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