Education
Stone graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended, but did not graduate from, both Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Stone graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended, but did not graduate from, both Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
In 2012, Stone co-founded a start-up called Jelly Industries where he serves as Chief Executive Officer. The release of the Jelly app, a Q&A platform that relies on images, was officially announced in January 2014. Aside from Twitter, Stone is an angel investor and advisor in the startup community having backed companies in a diversity of industries such as Square, Nest Labs, Beyond Meat, Medium, Workpop, Lyft and GoodFit. Stone is a board director at Beyond Meat, Medium, GoodFit, Workpop, and his newest startup, Jelly Industries.
Stone made his directorial debut working alongside Ron Howard and Canon United States of America to direct a short film as a part of Project Imaginat10n.
Stone is also executive producer on WIRED, a dramatic series set in the 70s about the birth of computer industry. From 2003 to 2005, Stone was employed by Google.
Stone, along with Evan Williams, was named 2009 Nerd of the Year by Gentlemen’s Quarterly magazine, one of the Most Influential People in The World by Time magazine, Entrepreneur of the Decade by Incorporated. magazine, and one of Vanity Fair"s Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age. Stone was honored with the International Center for Journalists" first Innovation Award in 2010. Stone holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Babson College, and is a Fellow at Oxford University. High Point University recently announced via a tweet that Stone will be speaking at the school on January 21, 2016. He will speak about the "power of connection." During his visit Stone will participate in a question and answer session with High Point University president Nido Qubein. The presentation will be filmed by University of North Carolina-television and will air at a later date as part of the “High Point University Presents” series. After the interview, Stone will meet in small groups with High Point University students studying communication, entrepreneurship and business.
Stone is a vegan, which he became after visiting Farm Sanctuary, and is involved in causes including animal welfare, environmentalism, poverty, health and education.
