One of Twitter's cofounders is rejoining the company — and not a moment too soon
Twitter is getting the band back together. Or at least some of it.
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone announced on Tuesday that he's returning to the company he helped start.
His return is a dose of good news for Twitter amid a rough stretch of executive departures and sub-par growth.
Stone's role will focus on internal culture.
"My top focus will be to guide the company culture, that energy, that feeling," he wrote in a Medium post.
Stone noted that he was asked back to Twitter by CEO Jack Dorsey during an event at Twitter headquarters.
"When I stood next to Jack addressing the crowd of employees, I felt the energy, and I was overcome with emotion," Stone wrote. "I realized in that moment that Twitter was the most important work of my life."
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"While we were on stage, Jack asked me to come back to to work at Twitter," Stone continued. "People cheered. But I wasn’t really sure if he meant it. After Tea Time, we spoke privately and Jack told me that he really did — he wanted me to come back and work at Twitter."
Stone left Twitter in 2011 and went on to found a series of other companies. None found anywhere near the success of Twitter. Jelly, arguably the most successful, was bought by Pinterest in March.
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Jason Abbruzzese is a Business Reporter at Mashable. He covers the media and telecom industries with a particular focus on how the Internet is changing these markets and impacting consumers. Prior to working at Mashable, Jason served as Markets Reporter and Web Producer at the Financial Times. Jason holds a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University and an M.A. in International Affairs from Australian National University.
