Biz Stone left Twitter to work on new projects

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has announced that he will retire from the company and move on to work on several new projects.

Stone will again work with other Twitter co-founder Eve Williams on projects under the auspices of the resurrected Obvious Corporation  , an organization that Williams founded in the mid -2000s in order to collect several projects in one company. It was inside Obvious that Twitter itself came into being, which later became a separate company.

Jason Goldman, another Twitter leader, will join Stone and Williams. He was vice president until his retirement last December.

Williams himself resigned as CEO Twitter at the end of last year. The current CEO, Dick Costolo, will remain at the helm of the company.

Stone wrote on his blog that he would still help Twitter when and where he could. But he will spend most of his time on new beginnings.

Regarding Obvious Corporation, Stone writes very vaguely: “Our plan is to develop new projects and solve serious problems associated with a simple mission: Obvious Corporation develops systems that help people work together to improve the world. This is a dream!".

On Twitter, in addition to Dick Costolo, Jack Dorsey, another co-founder of the startup, remains in the lead. He gave up the role of CEO in 2008, a year later introducing his new project Square, but this year he returned to the company as executive chairman.

Now it’s not entirely clear who is in charge of Twitter, but it is hoped that the company will continue to grow with Costolo and Dorsey led by Stone and Williams as advisers.

[ via Jolie O'Dell / Mashable]