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. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. ‘The Social Network’ painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook’s first year. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
I’m not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says ‘I really want to be an entrepreneur’ but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: ‘This person is totally aimless.’ Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that’s very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
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. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It’s pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
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. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful. Dustin Moskovitz Read Quote
