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Dustin Moskovitz co-founded the social networking website Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes. Moskovitz owns a 6% share of Facebook, giving him a net worth of US$750 million. Born in Washington, D.C., to Jewish parents, Moskovitz attended Harvard University as an... economics major for two years before he moved to Palo Alto to work full-time on Facebook. On October 3, 2008, Moskovitz announced that he would leave Facebook in a month to form a new company with Justin Rosenstein, an engineering manager who first worked at Google then later worked at Facebook. Moskovitz plans to form a company that will be "to your work life what Facebook.com is to your social life." Moskovitz had recruited Rosenstein to Facebook; while at Facebook, they collaborated together on software for business users. Moskovitz's departure followed a series of departures by Facebook executives. In response to this, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, released a statement, saying, "Dustin has always had Facebook's best interest at heart and will always be someone I turn to for advice.
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Chris R. Hughes co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin. He was the coordinator of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the... campaign's online social networking website. Hughes is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, a Cambridge venture capital firm, and a strategic advisor at GMMB, a political consulting firm that worked with the 2008 Obama campaign. In 2010, Hughes founded and became Executive Director of Jumo, a non-profit organization that "aims to help people find ways to help the world." In July 2010, he was tapped by the United Nations to serve as a UNAIDS Commmisioner. Hughes was born in Hickory, North Carolina. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature.
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Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, libertarian and venture capitalist. With Elon Musk and Max Levchin, Thiel... co-founded PayPal and was its CEO. He currently serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with more than $2 billion under management, and a managing partner in The Founders Fund, a $275 million venture capital fund he launched with Ken Howery and Luke Nosek in 2005. He was an early investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, and sits on the company’s board of directors. Thiel was ranked #377 on the Forbes 400 in 2008, with a net worth of US$1.3 billion. Peter Thiel lives in San Francisco, California. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and raised in Foster City, California, Thiel was a US-rated Chess Master and one of the highest ranked under-21 players in the country. He studied 20th century philosophy as an undergraduate at Stanford University. An avowed libertarian, he founded The Stanford Review, now the university's main conservative/libertarian newspaper. After earning his J.D. from Stanford in 1992, Thiel clerked for Judge J.L.
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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg co-founded... Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. As of March 2010, he is the youngest billionaire in the world, with a net worth of US$4 billion in 2010 due to his 24% share of Facebook. Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York and raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Zuckerberg was raised with a Jewish background, but he considers himself an atheist. He started programming when he was in middle school. Early on, Zuckerberg enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games. Before attending Phillips Exeter Academy, he went to school at Ardsley High School. At high school, he excelled in classics. He transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy where he immersed himself in Latin.
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