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Then:Mr. Moskovitz cofounded Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. "I usually mention Andrew [McCollum] and include an * with Eduardo [Saverin]," he quipped on Quora back in 2009. To teach himself to code in the week after Thefacebook launched, Mr. Moskovitz went out and bought PERL for Dummies before Mr. Zuckerberg explained that the site wasn't written in PERL. Mr. Moskovitz's first job was to spearhead expansion to other campuses, which Mr. Zuckerberg called "critical" to the site's success.



As his coding skills grew, Mr. Moskovitz went on to oversee the major architecture of the site as the company's first CTO. He's also credited with Facebook's mobile strategy and development. In "The Facebook Effect," David Kirkpatrick wrote, "Moskovitz is the kind of person every start-up needs—diligent, down-to-earth, versatile, and pragmatic."



Now:Mr. Moskovitz left Facebook in October, 2008 to start Asana, a task management web app to keep teams in sync, along with fellow Facebooker Justin Rosenstein. He initially tried to work on Asana while at Facebook, but eventually set out on his own after Mr. Zuckerberg showed "little interest" in making the social network useful to the workplace. Asana has picked up $10.2 million in funding from a number of Facebook employees and investors, including Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Sean Parker, Owen Van Natta, Aditya Agarwal, Matt Cohler, and more.



In addition to investing in Path, run by fellow Facebook alum Dave Morin, Mr. Moskovitz had invested in Flipboard, which turns Twitter and Facebook into a magazine-style iPad app. Along with Mr. Morin and current Facebook product manager Sam Lessin, Mr. Moskovitz also joined a $1.2 million seed round in Venmo, the mobile payments app that lets you split a bill with your friends. As Facebook's S-1 filing revealed, Mr. Moskovitz owns 7.6 percent, or 134 million, Class B shares. At an analyst-estimated $85 billion valuation, that would earn him $4 billion. Contrary to popular belief, his dog allergies are not the culprit behind Facebook's no pets policy, or so Mr. Moskovitz insists.



(Photo: TheRichest.com)

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Then:Mr. Moskovitz cofounded Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. "I usually mention Andrew [McCollum] and include an * with Eduardo [Saverin]," he quipped on Quora back in 2009. To teach himself to code in the week after Thefacebook launched, Mr. Moskovitz went out and bought PERL for Dummies before Mr. Zuckerberg explained that the site wasn't written in PERL. Mr. Moskovitz's first job was to spearhead expansion to other campuses, which Mr. Zuckerberg called "critical" to the site's success.



As his coding skills grew, Mr. Moskovitz went on to oversee the major architecture of the site as the company's first CTO. He's also credited with Facebook's mobile strategy and development. In "The Facebook Effect," David Kirkpatrick wrote, "Moskovitz is the kind of person every start-up needs—diligent, down-to-earth, versatile, and pragmatic."



Now:Mr. Moskovitz left Facebook in October, 2008 to start Asana, a task management web app to keep teams in sync, along with fellow Facebooker Justin Rosenstein. He initially tried to work on Asana while at Facebook, but eventually set out on his own after Mr. Zuckerberg showed "little interest" in making the social network useful to the workplace. Asana has picked up $10.2 million in funding from a number of Facebook employees and investors, including Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Sean Parker, Owen Van Natta, Aditya Agarwal, Matt Cohler, and more.



In addition to investing in Path, run by fellow Facebook alum Dave Morin, Mr. Moskovitz had invested in Flipboard, which turns Twitter and Facebook into a magazine-style iPad app. Along with Mr. Morin and current Facebook product manager Sam Lessin, Mr. Moskovitz also joined a $1.2 million seed round in Venmo, the mobile payments app that lets you split a bill with your friends. As Facebook's S-1 filing revealed, Mr. Moskovitz owns 7.6 percent, or 134 million, Class B shares. At an analyst-estimated $85 billion valuation, that would earn him $4 billion. Contrary to popular belief, his dog allergies are not the culprit behind Facebook's no pets policy, or so Mr. Moskovitz insists.



(Photo: TheRichest.com)

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