Tech

Could a Twitter founder miss out on his payday?

He’s stone cold silent.

Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder and former chief executive, isn’t even name checked in the financial disclosure documents the company filed ahead of its market debut.

In fact, it isn’t clear whether Stone is still in line for a massive payday either.

He isn’t listed among the Twitter stakeholders with 5 percent ownership or more.

That suggests he unloaded at least a portion of his stake when he left the company in 2011.

The 39-year-old Stone made an unceremonious exit from the micro-blogging service, joining co-founder Evan Williams at tech incubator Obvious Corp. The circumstances surrounding his departure weren’t divulged.

In contrast, Williams and Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s executive chairman and the third co-founder, are both rich based on the filing.

Williams owns a whopping 12 percent of the company, making him the biggest individual shareholder.

Stone’s absence from Twitter’s public disclosures is all the more interesting given that all three co-founders were invited to Twitter’s offices on Thursday for a company-wide meeting.

Vanity Fair named Stone one of the top 10 people of the information age and Time magazine listed him as one of the world’s most influential people.