Dustin Moskovitz is an entrepreneur and computer programmer who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes. He was the company’s first chief technology officer and is now a co-founder of Asana, a software company that provides tools for work management.
Moskovitz was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York, and grew up in Florida. He attended Harvard University, where he met Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. The three of them co-founded Facebook in 2004.
After leaving Facebook in 2008, Moskovitz co-founded Asana with Justin Rosenstein. Asana is a software company that provides tools for work management.
Moskovitz is also a co-founder of Good Ventures, a philanthropic organization. He is married to Cari Tuna, a co-founder of the organization.
Moskovitz is a self-made billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $14.6 billion as of 2019.
Here are Top 10 Powerful Dustin Moskovitz Quotes
1. “One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.” – Dustin Moskovitz
2. “For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, ‘Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I’ve earned slightly more wealth.’ I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.” – Dustin Moskovitz
3. “Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.” – Dustin Moskovitz
4. “The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that’s the only way the idea will come into the world.” – Dustin Moskovitz
5. “I can’t apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn’t work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone’s life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid’s education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.” – Dustin Moskovitz
6. “There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There’s an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.” – Dustin Moskovitz
7. “When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. ‘The Social Network’ painted this picture that we were partying all the time when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook’s first year.” – Dustin Moskovitz
8. “Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It’s pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact.” – Dustin Moskovitz
9. “There’s an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.” – Dustin Moskovitz
10. “Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.” – Dustin Moskovitz