Biz Stone

The travel deal space is busy, but companies are differentiating themselves by its online and app experiences. Trazzler actually doesn’t want you to travel far, and would rather you stay within driving distance. The company says its approach: Fosters investment in local economies and encouraging more frequent, shorter trips. Trazzler was created out of the original Twitter office by Adam Rugel, a former Odeo employee with Biz Stone. Biz Stone is still involved as a co-founder and board member...Read Full Story

The travel deal space is busy, but companies are differentiating themselves by its online and app experiences. Trazzler actually doesn’t want you to travel far, and would rather you stay within driving distance. The company says its approach: Fosters investment in local economies and encouraging more frequent, shorter trips. Trazzler was created out of the original Twitter office by Adam Rugel, a former Odeo employee with Biz Stone. Biz Stone is still involved as a co-founder and board member...Read Full Story

Intercom, a customer relationship management-focused startup, has raised $1 million from a bevy of Silicon Valley’s trendiest angel investors. Yeah, we said trendy. Rather than taking checks from a slew of long-time angels in the area, Intercom has turned to newer investors, most of whom were relatively recently on founding teams, themselves. Participants in this angel round include Biz Stone, formerly of Twitter; Huddle founder Andy McLoughlin; Flowtown founder Dan Martell; and Dave McClure...Read Full Story

Apparently testing out social media-enabled voter awareness app Votizen, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has just sent out a litany of tweets to people he follows, endorsing SF candidate Ed Lee for Mayor; “Will you endorse @EdLeeforMayor for Mayor on @Votizen https://www.votizen.com/m/93t6at/,” like that times 30. While Twitter representative Sean Garrett tweeted that Biz “press[ing] the wrong button” as responsible for the spam, I haven’t been able to replicate the effect on Votizen, which...Read Full Story

Image courtesy of tome213 (sxc.hu) Ahhh, Thanksgiving: time of mortal peril for the average turkey. Most of you probably know that Benjamin Franklin was a staunch advocate of the turkey as our national bird over the eagle: not as handsome, but certainly both noble and intelligent. (Drat that John Adams! All style and no substance.) Below is a video from Twitter founder Biz Stone on his plans this season. And whether you will be eating turkeys today or just… hanging out with them: we wish you...Read Full Story