BIOGRAPHY: INSPIRING STORY OF DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ, CO-FOUNDER OF FACEBOOK AND FOUNDER OF ASANA

Dustin Moskovitz is popularly known to be one of the co-founders of Facebook which is the largest social media website in the world.



 Dustin Moskovitz helped in building an audience for the social media site that started in Havard University alongside Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Edwardo Saverin and Andrew Mccolum.

They later extended the social media site to other schools and finally it was opened to the world. Currently, Facebook has about 2 billion users who visit the site each and everyday.

  After successfully building an audience, Dustin also helped in monetising the website using the advertising strategy.  Dustin Moskovitz was born in a Jewish family that lived in Florida in the United States of America on the 22nd of May in the year 1984.

 His father was a psychiatrist while the mother was a teacher and an artist. After successfully graduating from high school and obtaining the IB diploma, he joined Havard University where he was studying Economics and taking it as a major.

After two years at University, he dropped out of school and decided to go to Palo Alto where he worked on Facebook full-time straight for eight years. He has a 2 percent stake in Facebook which is worth 12 billion dollars. 

After working at Facebook for eight years, he decided to move on and started another company called Asana which is team collaborating company with hundreds of employees.

 The company is now valued to be around 2 billion dollars. Dustin Moskovitz has also invested in several other companies like Quora, Vicarious, Nationbuilder, Flipboard, Venmo and many others. Dustin Moskovitz is currently the Chief executive of Asana.

 Dustin Moskovitz also contributed 20 million dollars for the campaigns to the Democratic party during the 2016 elections where he was supporting Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton who later lost the elections to Donald Trump.

 Dustin Moskovitz also signed the giving pledge where many billionaires have vowed to give away their money when they die.

Other billionaires who have signed the pledge include Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Elon Musk and many others out there.

Dustin Moskovitz is an inspiration to all the entrepreneurs out there who are planning to join the world of entrepreneurship.