Surely, everyone knows about Facebook and its
main man Mark Zuckerberg, but those who were able to research more about or
watch the film entitled “The Social Network” might already have the idea that
it is not Zuckerberg alone that made the creation of Facebook possible. Dustin
Moskovitz is among the co-founders of the social networking site and
as one, he became one of the richest young men in the face of the earth.
Born May 22, 1984 in Gainesville, Florida, it
seems that he is meant to become friends and partner with Mark Zuckerberg with
the latter just eight days older than the former. He attended the Vanguard High
School and graduated from the IB Diploma Programme. Later on, he went to
Harvard University majoring in economics for two years before he moved with
Zuckerberg to Palo Alto, California to take Facebook into greater heights.
Moskovitz was among the four people, three of
whom were roommates, who founded Facebook in their dorm room in Harvard in
February 2004. The social network, originally named thefacebook.com, was
initially intended to be an exclusive online directory of all the university’s
students to help residential students identify members of different residences.
Seeing the potential, Moskovitz and Zuckerberg took a year off from the
university and moved to Palo Alto to take Facebook into full swing. Initially,
they hired eight employees. Moskovitz served as the first chief technology
officer and vice president of engineering. As such, he led the technical staff
and monitored the site’s major architecture. He was also responsible for the
company’s mobile development.
In October 2008, Moskovitz left Facebook to
form a new company, Asana. His departure from Facebook was taken by Zuckerberg
lightly as it was established that Asana is not a competitor of Facebook.
Moskovitz remained connected to Facebook despite leaving his position and by
March 2011, Forbes named Moskovitz as the world’s youngest self-made
billionaire basing the announcement to his 7.6% share in Facebook.
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