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Dustin Moskovitz
Co-founder and CEO, Asana- Asana
Dustin Moskovitz's Journey so far ...
- Dustin Moskovitz completed his schooling from Florida and enrolled at Harvard University to study Economics. In Harvard, he met Mark Zuckerberg who was his room-mate; the duo with two others - Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes started Facebook in 2004
- Initially, his main role was to expand Facebook's reach in campuses across America and he was pretty successful in doing that
- They left Harvard and went to California to consolidate the social networking website's operations. In Facebook, Moskovitz served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice-President of Engineering
- He is 8 days younger to Zuckerberg and was once the youngest self-made billionaire. Most of Moskovitz's wealth is thanks to his stake in the social networking service
- In 2008, Moskovitz stepped down from Facebook and teamed up with ex-Google-and-Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein to start Asana, a company that helps teams to work together effortlessly. He said that he wanted to pursue another passion
- Moskovitz distanced Asana from social networking and placed it as an alternative to email, spreadsheets, whiteboards and physical meetings; he wanted to replace these technologies
- Under the stewardship of Moskovitz, Asana raised funds from noted investors like Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Peter Thiel. Asana became a unicorn in 2018 and according to PitchBook, the workplace app is valued at $1.5 billion
- Within a few years, Moskovitz turned the Silicon Valley-based company into one of the happiest workplaces in America
- In 2011, Moskovitz co-founded Good Ventures with his then-fiancee and now wife Cari Tuna and through this initiative, the duo gave a substantial amount to charities and foundations to eradicate malaria
- In 2014, he co-founded Open Philanthropy project which is a collaboration between Good Ventures and GiveWell. This initiative looks for philanthropic ideas, grants funds and publishes the findings after the results
- Moskovitz and his wife signed the Bill Gates' and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, thus becoming the youngest couple to commit a substantial amount of wealth to philanthropy
Before you go ...
- In 2016, Dustin Moskovitz became one of the top donors for the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. He and his wife Cari Tuna donated $20 million to defeat Donald Trump