Dustin Moskovitz

Dustin Moskovitz
Born (1984-05-22) May 22, 1984[1]
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University
Known for Co-founder of Facebook (2004); world's youngest self-made billionaire (2012)
Net worth Increase US$10.2 billion (May 2016)[2]
Spouse(s) Cari Tuna (m. 2013)

Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) is an American internet entrepreneur who co-founded the website Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes.[3] In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana[4] with Justin Rosenstein. In March 2011, Forbes reported Moskovitz to be the youngest self-made billionaire in history, on the basis of his 2.34% share in Facebook.[5]

Background and education

Moskovitz was born in Gainesville, Florida and grew up in Ocala, Florida. He is eight days younger than Zuckerberg.[6] Moskovitz is Jewish whose father was a psychiatrist and mother a teacher and an artist.[7][8] He attended Vanguard High School, graduating from the IB Diploma Program. Moskovitz attended Harvard University as an economics major for two years before he moved with Mark Zuckerberg to Palo Alto. He went to work full-time on Facebook.[9]

Career

Facebook

Four people, three of whom were roommates — Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz — founded Facebook in their Harvard University dorm room in February 2004. Originally called thefacebook.com, it was intended as an exclusive online directory of all Harvard's students to help residential students identify members of other residences.[3][10] In June 2004, Zuckerberg, Hughes and Moskovitz took a year off from Harvard and moved Facebook's base of operations to Palo Alto, California, and hired eight employees.[11] They were later joined by Sean Parker. At Facebook, Moskovitz was the company's first chief technology officer and then vice president of engineering;[12] he led the technical staff and oversaw the major architecture of the site, as well as being responsible for the company’s mobile strategy and development.[9]

After Facebook

On October 3, 2008, Moskovitz announced that he was leaving Facebook to form a new company called Asana with Justin Rosenstein, an engineering manager at Facebook. Moskovitz was also the biggest angel investor in the mobile photo-sharing site Path, run by another former member of Facebook, David Morin. It was reported[13] that Moskovitz's advice was important in persuading Morin to reject a $100 million offer for the company from Google, made in February 2011.[14]

Philanthropy

Moskovitz co-founded the philanthropic organization Good Ventures with his girlfriend (and now wife) Cari Tuna in 2011.[15] In June 2012, Good Ventures announced a close partnership with charity evaluator GiveWell.[16]

Dustin and Cari are also the youngest couple to sign Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, which commits billionaires to giving away most of their wealth in the form of philanthropy.[17]

Media depictions

Moskovitz is played in the film The Social Network by actor Joseph Mazzello. Responding to a question on Quora, Moskovitz said that the film "emphasizes things that didn't matter (like the Winklevoss brothers, whom I've still never even met and had no part in the work we did to create the site over the past 6 years) and leaves out things that we really did (like the many other people in our lives at the time, who supported us in innumerable ways)."[18]

External links

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References

  1. ↑ Pilkington, Ed (March 10, 2011). "Forbes rich list: Facebook six stake their claims". The Guardian (UK). Retrieved March 30, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Billionaires: #202 Dustin Moskovitz". Forbes. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Company Timeline". Facebook. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
  4. ↑ Rosenstein, Justin."Reply on Quora to: Who is the CEO of Asana?", Quora, February 8, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  5. ↑ Zoe Fox (March 10, 2011). "Forbes‘s Youngest Billionaire: Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Edges Out Mark Zuckerberg". TIME.
  6. ↑ "America's Youngest Billionaires", Forbes, 6 October 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  7. ↑ "From Social Media To Killing Emails By Dustin Moskovitz". Eyerys. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  8. ↑ Jacob Berkman (December 10, 2010). "Zuckerberg among nine new Jewish individuals and families to take the Giving Pledge". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  9. 1 2 "Dustin Moskovitz: Crunchbase Profile", Techcrunch. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  10. ↑ Rosen, Ellen (2005-05-27). "A quiet tech boom emphasizes substance over dreams". The New York Times.
  11. ↑ "Finding Friends with Facebook", Wired, July 3, 2005. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  12. ↑ "Dustin Moskovitz: Forbes Profile", September 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  13. ↑ Lacy, Sarah."Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia", Techcrunch, February 13, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  14. ↑ Arrington, Mike. "Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No.", Techcrunch, February 2, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  15. ↑ Tuna, Cari. "Our vision, mission & initial approach".
  16. ↑ Holden (2012-06-28). "GiveWell and Good Ventures".
  17. ↑ "Silicon Valley Billionaire Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna on the Reasoned Art of Giving". Jewish Business News. 2015-01-02.
  18. ↑ Moskovitz, Dustin."Reply on Quora to: What does Dustin Moskovitz think of the Facebook movie?", Quora, July 16, 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
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