Facebook Co-Founder Moskovitz to Leave?
It would appear that one of the co-founders of facebook; Dustin Moskovitz is leaving facebook. It looks like he is leaving to start another company with Justin Rosenstein who is currently a Facebook engineer. Facebook has not officially confirmed this at this time; but we have seen a note that does in fact support this.
Dustin is the VP of Engineering at Facebook. He has put out some amazing products during his tenure at facebook including the iPhone app for Blackberry. Most people don’t know him because he has never really been front and center publicly. As facebook matures and evolves it is not surprising that some really smart people from the early days of facebook would move on to start their own ventures. He can certainly afford to do so. He does have a killer idea to be leaving facebook: to build an extensible enterprise productivity suite, along with a high-level open-source software development toolkit, built for the Web fro...
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