About who helped Zuckerberg in PHP
"We didn't party all the time on Facebook as shown on the social network," he said in a media statement. "We didn't really hang out much, we just worked hard."
He studied economics, once confused programming languages, eventually became a billionaire, but still rides his bike to work. He is involved in charity, supporting various projects - from the fight against malaria to the development of artificial intelligence. Introducing Dustin Moskowitz (1), a man whose life is what it is, because in the dorm he shared a room with Mark Zuckerberg ...
He is only eight days younger than Zuckerberg. He is originally from Florida, where he was born on May 22, 1984. Grew up in an intelligent family. His father led a medical practice in the field of psychiatry, and his mother was a teacher and artist. There he graduated from Vanguard High School and joined the IB Diploma program.
He started making money then. first money in the IT industry - created websites, helped colleagues solve problems with their personal computers. However, at Harvard University, he chose economics and, by complete chance, decided that he was living in a dorm in the same room with the future founder of Facebook. Rooms were allocated to students as a result of a lottery. Dustin became friends with Mark (2), about which he says today that at the university he was distinguished by energy, a sense of humor and poured jokes on every occasion.
2. Dustin Moskowitz with Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, 2004
When Zuckerberg began working on his project on the social network, Dustin Moskowitz, according to his recollections, just wanted to support his colleague. He bought the Perl Dummies Tutorial and volunteered to help a few days later. However, it turned out that he had learned the wrong programming language. However, he did not give up - he just bought another textbook and after a few days of training he was able to program in PHP with Zuckerberg. PHP turned out to be quite simple for those who, like Moskowitz, were already familiar with the classic C programming language.
Coding, coding and more coding
In February 2004, Dustin Moskowitz co-founded Facebook along with two of Mark Zuckerberg's other roommates, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes. The site quickly gained popularity among students at Harvard University.
In an interview, Moskowitz recalls the first months of hard work at Facebook.com:
For several months, Dustin coded, ran to classes, and coded again. Within a few weeks, several thousand people registered on the site, and the site's founders were inundated with letters from students from other universities asking them to launch Facebook on their campuses.
In June 2004, Zuckerberg, Hughes, and Moskowitz took a year off from school, moved Facebook's base of operations to Palo Alto, California, and hired eight employees. They were sure that the most difficult stage was over. Dustin became development team leaderwho worked at Facebook. Every day the site was replenished with new users, and Moskowitz's work became more and more.
he recalls.
This is exactly what viewers of David Fincher's famous film The Social Network might remember as a busy figure sitting in the corner at a computer, leaning over a keyboard. This is a true picture of what Dustin Moskowitz did in the early years of Facebook, the first Social Platforms Technology Directorthat Vice President of Software Development. He also managed the technical staff i oversaw the core architecture website. He was also responsible for mobile strategy of the company and its development.
From Facebook to you
He worked hard at Facebook for four years. In the first period of the community's functioning, he was the main author of the site's software solutions. However, in October 2008, Moskowitz announced that, along with Justin Rosenstein (3), who previously left Google for Facebook, is starting his own business. The breakup reportedly went smoothly, which is not the case with Zuckerberg's other breakups with co-stars from the early Blue Platform years.
“It was definitely one of the most difficult decisions I have ever made in my life.
3. Dustin Moskowitz and Justin Rosenstein at Asana headquarters
However, he wanted to develop his idea and needed time, as well as his own team for his own project called Asana (in Persian and Hindi, this word means "easy to learn / do"). Before the launch of the new company, there was information that each of the engineers hired by Asana received an amount of PLN 10 at their disposal. dollars to "improve working conditions" to become "more creative and innovative."
In 2011, the company made the first mobile web version available for free. project and team management app, and a year later the commercial version of the product was ready. In the app, you can create projects, assign work to team members, set deadlines, and share information about tasks. It also includes the ability to create reports, attachments, calendars, etc. This tool is currently used by over 35 people. commercial clients, incl. eBay, Uber, Overstock, Federal Navy Credit Union, Icelandair and IBM.
“It's nice to have a simple business model where you create something of value for companies and they pay you to do it. What we give to businesses is infrastructure,” Moskowitz told reporters.
In September 2018, Asana announced that it had achieved a 90 percent increase in revenue from the previous year. Moskowitz, said he already had 50 20 paying customers. This customer base has grown from XNUMX XNUMX people. clients in just a year and a half.
At the end of last year, Asana was valued on the market at $900 million, which is an offer for the company. software as a service this is an impressive amount. However, in purely financial terms, the company is still unprofitable. Luckily, the young billionaire's net worth is estimated to be around $13 billion, so for now, his project enjoys some financial comfort and there's no rush to go up at any cost. Big investment firms such as Al Gore's Generation Investment Management, which backed Asana last year, believe in this idea. the amount of 75 million US dollars.
Participation in his own project does not prevent Dustin from supporting other people's projects. For example, Moskowitz has allocated $15 million to invest in Vicarious, a startup that researches artificial intelligence that learns like a human. The technology is intended for use in medicine and in the pharmaceutical industry for the production of medicines. Financial support was also given to the Way mobile website project, where users post photos and add tags for people, places and things. The website, run by another former Facebook CEO, David Morin, wanted to be bought by Google for a whopping $100 million. The proposal was rejected on the advice of Moskowitz. Path, however, was not as popular with users as Instagram, which was bought for a billion dollars - and closed in the fall of 2018.
Professionally understood charity
Despite the impressive amount in the account, Dustin Moskowitz has a reputation as the most modest billionaire in Silicon Valley. He does not buy expensive cars, uses cheap airlines without complexes, likes to go hiking on vacation. He states that he prefers to give away his property rather than pass it on to future generations.
And follows its own ads. Together with my wife Find a tuna, the youngest couple (4), which the signed a contract in 2010, they both joined the Warren Buffett and Bill & Melinda Gates Charitable Initiative, making a commitment to the richest people in the world to donate most of their wealth to charity. The couple also founded their own charitable organization. Good Enterprisesin which since 2011 they have donated about $100 million to many charities such as the Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, the Schistosomiasis Initiative and the World Worms Initiative. They are also involved in the Open Philanthropy project.
4. Dustin Moskowitz of the Cary Toon Zone
Moskowitz said.
Good Ventures is run by his wife, Kari, who once worked as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal.
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As it turns out, even with a little money and simple solutions, you can improve the lives of people in many parts of the world. A couple of billionaires refused to support NASA projects and became interested in, for example, iodine deficiency problemwhich affects the mental development of children in the poorer countries of the world. Moskowitz and his wife take their business very seriously and go beyond creating the image of Silicon Valley billionaires.
In the 2016 presidential election, Dustin was the third largest donor. He and his wife donated $20 million to support Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. At the same time, he is no different from most representatives of the environment from which he comes. The vast majority of Silicon Valley residents adhere to the left, or, as it is called in the US, liberal views.
