Background
Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard, where he roomed with Mark Zuckerberg, taught himself to program, and dropped out to move to Palo Alto and build Facebook. He was Facebook's first chief technology officer and later vice president of engineering, work that put him in charge of scaling engineering headcount, which is where the coordination problem Asana addresses came from.
Role at Asana, Inc.
Dustin Moskovitz is a US entrepreneur, a co-founder of Facebook, and the co-founder of Asana, which he ran as chief executive officer from 2008 until July 2025. At Facebook he saw project tracking break down as the company grew, so he and Justin Rosenstein built an internal tool called Tasks that spread across the company. He left Facebook in 2008 to co-found Asana on the same idea, took it public through a direct listing in 2020, and bought more than $1 billion of Asana stock on the open market between June 2021 and early 2022. He announced his retirement as chief executive in March 2025, stayed on as board chair until September 2026, and remains a director and majority holder of the company's voting power.
Dustin Moskovitz was born in 1984 in Gainesville. Education: Vanguard High School.