Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook
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Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook
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Dustin is married to girlfriend, Cari Tuna, a former Yale Daily News writer and Wall Street journalist.
Being a billionaire, he still believes that money should only be used for good cause and supports charity widely.
He had provided $10,000 to all of his engineers after successfully launching Asana, so as to improve the gadgets, equipment and other working conditions of the employees.
Dustin Moskovitz was born in a Jewish family in Gainesville, Florida on 22nd May, 1984. His father was a psychiatrist and practiced it in Florida. His mother was a teacher and artist.
He graduated from the Vanguard High School as he grew up in Florida. He pursued IB Diploma Program followed by economics at the Harvard University. However, 2 years after attending the University, he took a year off and shifted to Palo Alta in California, where, he started working full time on the Facebook project.
Dustin’s career started in February 2004, when he, along with roommates, Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes and friend, Andrew McCollum, started making plans about the launch of Facebook.
Facebook was originally designed to serve as an online database directory for students studying at Harvard as an aid tool to find fellow members. It was named as thefacebook.com.
However, in June 2004, the team took a year off and moved to California to work on the expansion of Facebook worldwide. They hired 8 new employees along with investor, Sean Parker.
Dustin was the lead programmer and the head of the technical department in Facebook.
According to Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin learnt programming in a few days and joined the team as the programmer. Dustin was the first CTO and VP of Engineering of Facebook.
Dustin was reported as the youngest self-made billionaire in history by Forbes in 2011. This was mainly based on his then share in Facebook.