The youngest rich dude, Dustin Moskovitz was Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate and Facebook's third employee.
He is just 8 days younger than his friend. The two dropped out of Harvard and moved to California to work for the social-networking firm full-time; he was its first chief technology officer and then vice president of engineering. He left in 2008 to start Asana, a collaboration and messaging software company with 18 employees.
Values of his new company include "being a mensch" and "chill-ness." Sold around a 1% stake in Facebook last year but held onto an estimated 5% in the company, whose value has soared to $66.5 billion, based on Interpublic's recent sale of shares.
Moskovitz signed onto the Giving Pledge in December, and is now establishing Good Ventures, a foundation with his live-in girlfriend and former journalist Cari Tuna. The two met on a blind date.
Moskovitz, who often bikes to work and flies commercial, says his wealth has not changed his lifestyle much: "I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, for entirely different reasons."
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