Who was one of Facebook’s five co-founders and later founded Asana?

Dustin Moskovitz was one of Facebook’s five co-founders and later founded Asana.

Moskovitz helped Mark Zuckerberg create Facebook while they were students at Harvard University. The other original co-founders commonly identified in accounts of Facebook’s founding are Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes, and Zuckerberg. Moskovitz worked on the site’s technical infrastructure during its early expansion.

He left Facebook in 2008 and later co-founded Asana with Justin Rosenstein. Asana became a software company focused on project management, teamwork, and workplace coordination. Moskovitz also became a major philanthropist through organizations connected with effective altruism.

A common mix-up is treating every early Facebook employee as a co-founder. The founding group is associated with the February 2004 launch at Harvard, while later executives and engineers joined during the company’s growth. Moskovitz’s later career therefore connects the history of social networking with modern workplace software.