Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22nd, 1984) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking website Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes.[1] Moskovitz owns a 6% share of Facebook, giving him a net worth of US$1.4 Billion. In 2010, Forbes 400 ranked Dustin Moskovitz as the world's youngest billionaire.[citation needed]
Dustin Moskovitz | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Co-founder of Facebook |
Personal life
Born in Washington, D.C., to Jewish parents,[2] Moskovitz attended Harvard University as an economics major for two years before he moved to Palo Alto to work full-time on Facebook.[3]
On October 3, 2008, Moskovitz announced that he would leave Facebook in a month to form a new company with Justin Rosenstein, an engineering manager who first worked at Google then later worked at Facebook.
Moskovitz plans to form Asana a company that will be "to your work life what Facebook.com is to your social life." Moskovitz had recruited Rosenstein to Facebook; while at Facebook, they collaborated together on software for business users. Moskovitz's departure followed a series of departures by Facebook executives. In response to this, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, released a statement, saying, "Dustin has always had Facebook's best interest at heart and will always be someone I turn to for advice."[4]
Role in founding Facebook
Four roommates — Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Moskovitz — founded Facebook in their Harvard University dorm room in February 2004, originally as thefacebook.com as an online directory of all Harvard's students and the website was built to help residential students identify members of other residences.[1][5][6] In June 2004, Zuckerberg and Moskovitz took a year off from Harvard and moved Facebook's base of operations to Palo Alto, California, joining Sean Parker in his apartment and hiring eight other employees in the process.[7] While at Facebook, Moskovitz was a Vice President, led the technical staff, and worked on the company's internal tools and strategy. Moskovitz's ability to write code has been called into question.[8] He appears in the film The Social Network as portrayed by Joseph Mazzello.
External links
References
- ^ a b "Company Timeline". Facebook. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
- ^ "World's 50 most influential Jews", The Jerusalem Post
- ^ "Company Bios". Facebook. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
- ^ Guynn, Jessica (2008-10-03). "Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz leaves for start-up". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
- ^ Rosen, Ellen (2005-05-27). "A quiet tech boom emphasizes substance over dreams". The New York Times.
- ^ "Faces of Facebook". Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter. 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2008-10-04. [dead link]
- ^ "Finding Friends with Facebook". Wired. 2005-07-03. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
- ^ http://www.businessinsider.com/is-the-social-network-true-2010-10#the-movie-zuckerberg-calls-facebook-cofounder-dustin-moscovitz-center-a-programmer-dustin-was-actually-an-operations-guy-who-struggled-to-learn-code-hes-also-not-an-idiot-as-he-appears-in-the-flick-6