Charlie Rose interviewed Twitter co-founder Biz Stone

decades later.

Charlie Rose: Talk about the biggest opportunities and threats that Twitter faces?

Biz Stone: Today, Twitter's biggest chance is that it's still growing. If you look at Twitter as a long-term company with lasting value-think about what it did decades later, as Jeff Bezos did-then Twitter is just in its infancy. And Twitter's biggest threat seems to be itself. Peter Fenton, one of our board members, likes to say the same thing every year in the course of Stanford University we teach together, "Twitter is constantly self-destructive, but it's still successful." "Twitter understands what is happening right now. It proves the value of its existence. Now, all we have is the problem of execution.

Charlie Rose: What are your strengths with other Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey?

Biz Stone: I have a similar relationship with EV and Jack, I'm the kind of person who stands on the cloud, throws something out from time to time, and keeps having some crazy thoughts. And they are the few people in the world who are going to say, "Let's just assume, if there's one minute that there's no gravity on Earth," answer: "Well, go on with your ideas." "Such a man. I'm on the cloud. They're on the ground. When we brainstorm, we can usually find a way to solve the problem in the middle of the right place.

Whose idea was Charlie rose:twitter?

Biz Stone: That's not much to say. I'd say it was Jack's idea. First of all, Evan proposed we have to admit that Odeo [an EV-run podcast company] didn't do too well. So I said to Jack, "then let's do something simple that can be done quickly." Then I made a few ideas. He said, "I want to make some updates." "So we went to his computer and he ordered AOL Messenger-until 2005 or 06, we were still using AOL." Jack showed me that you can set it up in the status update and tell people why you're not online, and some will write, "It sucks today" or "I'm listening to the white stripes[an American band." "Isn't it funny?" he said. I just glanced at it and knew what my friends were up to. I said, "I like the idea." I'll design it. "Then I made a" Follow "button, which functions as we see today.

Charlie Rose: What did Evan do?

Biz Stone: Without Evan, none of this would have been possible. Evan provided financial support. Of course, apart from money, he did something else. For example, Jack says, we should add audio because we're going to be a podcast company. Evan responds, "Hahaha." There's no door! ”

Charlie Rose: Tell me about Jelly, your new mobile search start-up company.

Biz stone:jelly is a common idea between me and my co-founder Ben Finkel, who is also a friend of mine. Ben and I realised that for the past 15 years, no one has ever tried to rethink the way we get answers. Now the background and technology are completely different before. We live a mobile life. We live in gregarious social life. So we designed jelly, which provides a better way to ask questions.

Charlie Rose: What's so special about it?

Biz Stone: Have you ever heard of the six-degree separation theory? The latest white paper says that with the development of social networks and mobile phones, only four people are needed. What jelly do is use photos, locations, maps, and most importantly, your entire social network to combine these together to form a larger network. It's not just a one-time, it's a two-degree separation. The object of your inquiry is the real person. They either know the answer or they can forward the question to their social network. This is also called "the strength of weak ties[casual advantage".

Charlie Rose: OK, please explain it in depth.

Biz Stone: You and your friends will generally know the same kind of things. But if you have an acquaintance, he is a lawyer, which means he brings a whole new circle of people with the same expertise. So if you have questions about this field, you can get an answer from them in a minute. And you can see how you are connected. Get a real answer from a real person. What you get is not a document that has been posted online or anywhere else. What you get is a suggestion. 24 hours after we launched Jelly, we got twice times as many users as Twitter's first year. This is thanks to Twitter and Facebook. Good Word-of-mouth is the word of mouth before, and now, everything is digitized, the message can be conveyed in an instant.