Dustin Moskovitz

Male

White

Coarse public-record coding; race is a noisy, interpretive category.

Ashkenazi Jewish

Multi-generational American; no recent immigration documented in the family line.

Inferred from absence of evidence, not directly documented.

Jewish

English

Inferred; not directly documented.

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No documented gap between his 2002 Harvard enrollment and continuous work at Facebook, then Asana, from 2004 onward.

Sources converge on a financially stable, two-parent professional household, his father reportedly a psychiatrist, that made attending Harvard and then dropping out of it a reversible decision rather than a gamble. No housing or income instability is documented at any point in his childhood.

The specific "psychiatrist father" detail rests on several converging but low-quality biography aggregator sites rather than a single authoritative primary source; treated as low confidence accordingly. The broader picture of a stable, comfortable household is corroborated by his straightforward path through a selective public IB program into Harvard with no documented financial strain.

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No period of chosen or imposed austerity is established in the record.

Father reported as a psychiatrist who ran a private practice after an earlier University of Florida affiliation; mother reported as a teacher and artist.

Repeated across several secondary biography sites but not traced to a single primary interview or filing; no stronger source was located in this pass.

A parent worked for themselves, the strongest known predictor of founding.

A private psychiatric practice, if accurate, would be self-employment; same weak-sourcing caveat as parentOccupations.

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Gainesville, Florida (birth), raised in Ocala — a mid-sized central Florida city.

Vanguard High School in Ocala, graduating from its International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, then Harvard University as an economics major.

Ocala, Florida to Cambridge, Massachusetts for Harvard in 2002, then to Palo Alto, California in June 2004 to work on Facebook full-time.

Thefacebook.com launched restricted to a harvard.edu address; the first users were Harvard undergraduates before it opened to other campuses.

Harvard College, which supplied both an elite peer network (Zuckerberg, Saverin, and Hughes were all fellow students) and a captive, .edu-verified first user base in the same physical place.

Credibility, Network

Co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes in February 2004; later co-founded Asana with Justin Rosenstein, a Facebook engineering manager, in December 2008.

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Born May 1984; Facebook launched February 2004.

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Co-founded Facebook while still enrolled at Harvard, with no prior job or venture.

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No conventional employer is documented before Facebook, which he co-founded rather than joined.

Attended Harvard University 2002–2004 as an economics major; left without completing a degree to work on Facebook full-time in Palo Alto.

Corroborated in Asana's 2021 proxy statement director biography ("Mr. Moskovitz attended Harvard University where he studied economics").

Direct path from a selective public IB high school program to Harvard, with no financial interruption documented before he left voluntarily to work on Facebook.

Moskovitz contributed no capital of his own at Facebook's founding; Zuckerberg and Saverin each put in $1,000 to launch thefacebook.com in January 2004. Moskovitz's contribution was engineering labor, not money.

Peter Thiel put in $500,000 as Facebook's first outside investment in summer 2004, followed by Accel Partners' $12.7 million Series A in May 2005 — capital Moskovitz benefited from as a co-founder without having raised or supplied any of it personally.

Asana's dual-class structure gives Class B common stock ten votes per share against one for Class A. As of Asana's 2021 proxy statement, Moskovitz held 4,947,046 Class A shares (5.4%) and 50,707,189 Class B shares (70.6% of that class), controlling about 63.3% of total voting power as of March 31, 2021 — before the further buying that took his overall stake toward 53% of shares outstanding by 2025.

Figures from the DEF 14A beneficial-ownership table, filed May 3, 2021.

Rather than diversify his Facebook-derived wealth, he redirected a large share of it back into Asana, buying more than $1.8 billion of Asana stock on the open market since the 2020 listing and building his stake toward roughly 53% of outstanding shares by 2025.

Facebook's February 2012 Form S-1 shows Moskovitz beneficially owning 133,763,645 shares of Class B common stock, about 7.6% of the company, held mostly through a family trust. Forbes separately reports that he has an agreement letting Mark Zuckerberg vote his Facebook shares, meaning he kept the economic upside of the stake without keeping personal voting control of it.

Beneficial-ownership figure from the S-1's principal-stockholders table, filed February 1, 2012. The voting-agreement detail is corroborated by Forbes's profile but not independently verified against a filing in this pass.

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No failed prior venture is documented before Facebook.

Facebook's early risk was absorbed by outside investors, Thiel and then Accel, rather than by Moskovitz's own savings or family money; he was a salaried-equivalent co-founder living on the company's funding from the start.

19

Age at Facebook's February 2004 founding; born May 1984.

Facebook launched as campus broadband and always-on internet use were becoming standard at American universities, just as MySpace and Friendster were proving social networking could draw a mainstream audience; its Harvard-only, real-name design was a deliberate contrast to the open, pseudonymous networks already live.

19

The Facebook equity position that became the bulk of his wealth began compounding at this age.

22

From the February 2004 founding to 2026, the period his retained Facebook/Meta stake has been appreciating.

Work-management software (Asana, where he built his operating career); wealth is sourced from social media and consumer internet (Facebook/Meta).

9100000000

Forbes real-time estimate as of September 24, 2026 (#404 globally), moving with Meta's and Asana's share prices; a band figure, not a filing. Down from a reported peak above $16 billion in March 2025. Sourced primarily from his retained Facebook/Meta equity rather than from Asana, the company he actually ran — CNBC reported in March 2025 that his "total net worth of more than $16 billion" was "mostly because of his early Facebook stake."

Journalistic estimate

2026

No large realized sale of either his Facebook/Meta or Asana holdings is documented; he has instead been a net buyer of Asana stock since its 2020 listing.

Overwhelmingly unrealized equity rather than salary or a cashed-out fortune: a Facebook/Meta stake dating to 2004–2012 that he never fully diversified out of, plus an Asana stake he actively grew through open- market purchases after the 2020 listing.

Original URL https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/asana-ceo-dustin-moskovitz-announces-retirement-stock-price-drops-25percent.html; fetched via Wayback Machine as cnbc.com blocks automated fetches.

Asana went public at roughly a $5.5 billion valuation in September 2020 and reported $724 million in fiscal-2025 revenue with about 1,819 employees. Good Ventures, the foundation he co-founded with Cari Tuna, has distributed billions of dollars since 2011.

Uncapped

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No regulatory finding or proceeding against Moskovitz personally is documented in sources reviewed.

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No civil judgment against Moskovitz personally is documented. (The Winklevoss/ConnectU and Saverin disputes over Facebook's founding named Zuckerberg, not Moskovitz, as a defendant.)

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Unrelated

No documented conduct finding exists to assess for instrumentality; included for schema completeness.

Low key, technically minded, Deliberate, philanthropically driven

Press

After

His public profile was mostly formed after Facebook's success and The Social Network (2010), not before it.

Asset

Coverage of his philanthropy and his relatively low-drama Asana tenure has generally been favorable; the March 2025 retirement and the stock's 25% drop were reported as a leadership-transition and business story, not as a personal failing.

The reputation was deliberately built, through books, press, and PR.

His public identity has been actively shaped through his own writing (a 2016 Medium post explaining a $20 million political donation, a 2013 essay on Burning Man) and through Good Ventures/Open Philanthropy's public communications about how they give.

Portrayed by actor Joseph Mazzello in the 2010 film The Social Network. On Quora, Moskovitz said the film emphasized "things that didn't matter," including the Winklevoss brothers, whom he says he never met, and left out things that did, including the other people who supported the founding team.

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No personal reputational crisis requiring recovery is documented; the 2025 CEO transition was framed as planned succession.