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035: Howard Lindzon – Speaks on High Growth Stocks, “Destroying” the Market and Angel Investing w/ Co-Founder of StockTwits

Chat With Traders

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What Sparked the Idea for Stock Twits?

I was using Twitter and I was like oh my god Twitter for stocks would be amazing. This was 2007 and I emailed Fred Wilson who was one of the biggest investor and Twitter a friend of mine to say why don't they do this? They said he said why don't you start it and so I kind of got dared into starting stock twits which was originally built on the Twitter platform. It started out as just an idea to work on top of Twitter but Twitter had its limitations and we wanted to build a community just for traders, that's how stock twits started.

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