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Dustin Moskovitz
United States
Net Worth
$11B
Source of Wealth
Facebook/Asana
Global Rank
#90 of 157
About Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is a technology visionary who co-founded Facebook at Harvard University alongside Mark Zuckerberg and went on to build Asana, one of the most successful work management software companies in the world. As Facebook's first Chief Technology Officer and the person responsible for much of the company's early technical architecture and growth strategy, Moskovitz played a critical role in building the platform that connected billions of people worldwide. His technical brilliance and managerial skill during Facebook's formative years were instrumental in the company's rapid rise.
After leaving Facebook in 2008, Moskovitz channeled his passion for productivity and teamwork into founding Asana with Justin Rosenstein. The company was born from their observation at Facebook that employees spent an enormous amount of time coordinating work rather than doing it, and they set out to build software that could dramatically reduce this organizational friction. Under Moskovitz's leadership, Asana grew into a publicly traded company used by hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide, proving his ability to build transformative technology products beyond his initial Facebook success.
Moskovitz is also one of the youngest signatories of the Giving Pledge and a leading figure in the effective altruism movement, committing to donate the majority of his wealth to causes that can demonstrably improve the most lives. Through his foundation Good Ventures, co-founded with his wife Cari Tuna, he has directed hundreds of millions of dollars toward global health, poverty alleviation, criminal justice reform, and pandemic preparedness. His rigorous, evidence-based approach to philanthropy has made him one of the most thoughtful and impactful givers of his generation.
Key Achievements
Co-Founded Facebook
Served as co-founder and first CTO of Facebook, building the technical foundation for a platform that would connect over 3 billion people worldwide.
Built Asana into a Public Company
Co-founded Asana and grew it into a publicly traded work management platform used by hundreds of thousands of organizations globally.
Giving Pledge Signatory
Became one of the youngest signatories of the Giving Pledge, committing to donate the majority of his wealth to high-impact charitable causes.
Good Ventures Foundation
Co-founded Good Ventures with Cari Tuna, deploying hundreds of millions toward evidence-based philanthropy in global health, poverty, and criminal justice reform.
Effective Altruism Leadership
Became a leading advocate and funder of the effective altruism movement, promoting rigorous, evidence-based approaches to doing the most good with philanthropic resources.
Notable Quotes
“The biggest thing I've learned is that focus on impact is what really matters — both in business and in philanthropy.”
— Dustin Moskovitz
“If you can make the coordination problem better at work, you can unlock an enormous amount of human potential.”
— Dustin Moskovitz
“We want to be strategic about our giving and direct resources to where they can have the greatest measurable impact.”
— Dustin Moskovitz
Key Decisions
Co-founded Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard, taking on the role of CTO and helping architect the platform's early technical infrastructure.
Left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein, pursuing a vision to transform how teams coordinate and manage work.
Signed the Giving Pledge alongside Cari Tuna, committing to donate the majority of their wealth to effective charitable causes.
Co-founded Good Ventures with Cari Tuna as their philanthropic vehicle, partnering with GiveWell and Open Philanthropy to maximize charitable impact.
Successfully led Asana to its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, validating the company's vision and creating a lasting public enterprise.
Companies & Ventures
Asana
Publicly traded (NYSE: ASAN)Co-Founder & CEO · Est. 2008
Asana is a work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their projects and tasks. Co-founded by Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein (a former Facebook and Google engineer) in 2008, Asana grew from a tool they built internally at Facebook to manage engineering projects into a publicly traded company serving over 150,000 paying organizations worldwide. The platform emphasizes clarity of ownership, visibility into project status, and reducing the need for status-update meetings.
Portfolio & Holdings
Notable public equity positions associated with Dustin Moskovitz.
META
Meta Platforms
ASNA
Ascena Retail Group
Life Lessons & Insights
Apply Analytical Rigor to Giving, Not Just Investing
Moskovitz and Tuna revolutionized philanthropic giving by applying the same analytical standards to charity that investors apply to financial returns. By partnering with GiveWell to evaluate charities based on cost-effectiveness data, they ensure that each dollar of giving produces the maximum possible positive impact. Their approach demonstrates that generosity is most powerful when guided by evidence rather than emotion alone.
Build What You Need, Then Offer It to the World
Asana originated as an internal tool that Moskovitz and Rosenstein built to solve their own productivity challenges at Facebook. This 'scratch your own itch' approach to entrepreneurship — building a product you personally need — ensured deep understanding of the problem and authentic product-market fit. Many of the most successful software companies have followed this same path from internal tool to commercial product.
Philanthropy
Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna are among the most analytically rigorous philanthropists in the world. Through their organization Good Ventures, they partner closely with the nonprofit evaluator GiveWell to direct hundreds of millions of dollars toward causes that evidence shows will save the most lives per dollar spent. Their giving has focused on global health — funding the distribution of antimalarial bed nets, deworming treatments, and direct cash transfers to people in extreme poverty. They have also made substantial grants toward biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, AI safety research, criminal justice reform, and farm animal welfare. Moskovitz and Tuna were among the youngest signers of the Giving Pledge, committing to donate the majority of their wealth during their lifetimes. Their approach — called effective altruism — prioritizes measurable impact over emotional appeal, directing resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.
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