30 Little Known Facts About Dustin Moskovitz You Might Have Missed Before

Dustin Moskovitz, one of the co-founders of Facebook, is an American internet entrepreneur, who is always known for his simple lifestyle. He has donated millions for various philanthropic activities, along with his wife Cari Tuna. He has investments in 7 major companies in different sectors. He was portrayed by actor Joseph Mazzello, in the 2010 movie “The Social Network.” Here are some really interesting facts about the entrepreneur that will blow your mind away:

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1.  He was reported as the youngest self-made billionaire in history by Forbes in 2011. His estimated net worth was mainly based on his share holdings in Facebook.
2.  Moskovitz co-founded the philanthropic organization Good Ventures with his girlfriend Cari Tuna in the year 2011.
3.  Since then onwards, the organization has donated approximately $100 million to GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, and Deworm the World Initiative, as well as standout charities
4.  The joint collaboration of Good Ventures with GiveWell led to a spinoff called the Open Philanthropy Project, whose goal is to figure out the best possible way to use large sums of money to do the most good.
5.  The Open Philanthropy Project has since become a separate organization, and continuously increases its annual giving, having made over $170 million in grants in 2018.
6.  Dustin Aaron Moskovitz was born on May 22, 1984, in a Jewish family in Gainesville, Florida. He is an American by nationality.
7.  His father was a psychiatrist, who practiced in Florida, while his mother was a teacher and an artist. He grew up with his parents in Ocala, Florida.
8.  He graduated from the Vanguard High School, where he pursued IB Diploma Program. He took up economics as his major at the Harvard University.
9.  In February 2004, he, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes, co-founded Facebook in their Harvard University dorm room.
10.  Originally named as thefacebook.com, it was initially an online directory of all Harvard's students to help residential students identify members of other residences.

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11.  The four people moved the company’s base of operations to Palo Alto, California, and hired a total of eight employees. Dustin was the 3rd employee of the company.
12.  In June 2004, he moved to Palo Alto with Mark Zuckerberg, taking a year off from Harvard in order to work full-time on Facebook.
13.  At Facebook, Moskovitz became the company's first chief technology officer and then vice president of engineering.
14.  He was the lead programmer and the head of the technical department in Facebook, who played an important role in the growth of the company, holding 7.6 % shares of Facebook.
15.  On October 3, 2008, he announced that he was leaving Facebook to form a new company called Asana with Justin Rosenstein, who was an engineering manager at Facebook.
16.  He has remained as the CEO of the company, with Rosenstein now serving as Board Member and Advisor.
17.  Asana went public at a market value of about $5.5 billion in a direct listing in September 2020. As of 2021, the company has more than 107,000 paying customers.
18.  It is said that Moskovitz has voted for the Democratic Party candidates in each election. Still, he claims that he has considered himself independent thinker who respects candidates and positions from both sides of the aisle.
19.  Through the Open Philanthropy Project, he has contributed to California YIMBY. It is said that the Open Philanthropy Project has donated around $500,000 to the cause.
20.  He was also the biggest angel investor in the mobile photo-sharing site Path, run by another former member of Facebook, David Morin.

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21.  It has been reported that his advice played a very important role in Morin rejecting a $100 million offer for the company from Google, made in February 2011.
22.  While he is known for his diversified investment strategy, he was particularly interested in the Artificial Intelligence Company, Vicarious.
23.  Moskovitz met Cari Tuna, a former Yale Daily News writer and Wall Street journalist, on a blind date in the year 2011. The couple got married in 2013.
24.  The duo regularly attends the Burning Man, an annual gathering that is mainly influenced by principles like self-reliance, radical inclusion, self-expression and others.
25.  Moskovitz and Tuna is the youngest couple to sign Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, which commits billionaires to giving away most of their wealth in the form of philanthropy.
26.  Before the 2016 election, he and Tuna had donated roughly $10,000 over their lifetime to federal candidates, most of it to Sean Eldridge, the husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.
27.  For the 2016 United States presidential election, he announced that he and his wife would donate $20 million to support Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee
28.  For the 2020 United States presidential election, Moskovitz donated $24 million to support the Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden.
29.  Through his company Asana, he and his wife Cari Tuna donated around $45 million, making the company the second largest contributor to Biden's presidential campaign after Bloomberg LP.
30.  In the year 2020, Moskovitz led a $40 million dollar Series D funding round for fusion power start-up Helion Energy.
31.  Dustin Moskovitz Net Worth: $10.7 Billion