Dustin Moskovitz
At Harvard University, where he studied as a young man in the early 2000s, Dustin Moskovitz was among a cohort of students whose time on campus would prove consequential to their later careers.
Born on May 22, 1984, in Gainesville, Moskovitz attended Vanguard High School before going on to Harvard University. A United States citizen, he pursued his education through both institutions and would later work as an entrepreneur and a computer scientist.
Those two occupations — entrepreneur and computer scientist — define the professional identity he has carried into adulthood. His path ran from Gainesville through Vanguard High School and then to Harvard, and it is as both a builder of technology ventures and a practitioner of computer science that Moskovitz has made his career.
Quotes by Dustin Moskovitz
Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.
Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They’d sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we’d go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.
There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There’s an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that’s the only way the idea will come into the world.
I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid's education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.
The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.
As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.
There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.