Justin Rosenstein

Justin Rosenstein
Rosenstein in 2018
Born
Justin Michael Rosenstein

(1983-05-13) May 13, 1983 (age 41)
Alameda County, California, U.S.[1]
Alma materStanford University
Occupation(s)Software programmer, entrepreneur
Known forCo-founder of Asana
Websitejustinrosenstein.com

Justin Michael Rosenstein (born May 13, 1983) is an American software programmer and entrepreneur. He co-founded the collaboration software company Asana in 2008.[2][3]

Early life

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Rosenstein grew up in San Francisco Bay Area and attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland, California. He is Jewish.[4] He was a successful high school Lincoln–Douglas debater. He matriculated to Stanford University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics at age 20.[5] As an undergraduate, he served as a member of the Mayfield Fellows Program.[6]

Career

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Rosenstein dropped out of a graduate program in computer science at Stanford in 2004 to join Google as a product manager.[7] At Google, Rosenstein led projects in Google's communication and collaboration division. His projects initially included Google Page Creator, the precursor to Google Sites, and a project internally codenamed “Platypus,” which eventually became Google Drive.[8] He also created and wrote the original prototype for Gmail Chat[9] and many of the features in Google's rich text editor.

In May 2007, Rosenstein left Google to become an engineering lead at Facebook, working closely with Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz.[7] He was technical lead in charge of Facebook's Pages, the Facebook Like button,[10] and Facebook Beacon.[11]

In October 2008, Rosenstein left Facebook to co-found the collaborative software company Asana along with Moskovitz.[12] On its website, Asana states its mission is to “help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly.”[13] He is a frequent speaker on issues of business and technology.[14][15][16] He has published opinions on building effective collaborative software in Wired,[17] leadership strategy and enterprise software design in Fast Company,[18] and entrepreneurship in TechCrunch,[19] and productivity in TIME.[20]

One Project

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Rosenstein is the founder of a nonprofit organization called One Project.[21] In 2014, he delivered the keynote address at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, about using technology for social good as part of “one human project for global thriving.”[22]

The Social Dilemma

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Rosenstein starred in the documentary drama The Social Dilemma, which examines the impact of extended time spent on social networking platforms and raises the alarm on the importance of tackling problems such as addiction, fake news, and global warming.

In the documentary, Rosenstein writes:

"We live in a world in which a tree is worth more, financially, dead than alive, in a world in which a whale is worth more dead than alive. For so long as our economy works in that way and corporations go unregulated, they're going to continue to destroy trees, to kill whales, to mine the earth, and to continue to pull oil out of the ground, even though we know it is destroying the planet and we know that it's going to leave a worse world for future generations. This is short-term thinking based on this religion of profit at all costs, as if somehow, magically, each corporation acting in its selfish interest is going to produce the best result. This has been affecting the environment for a long time. What's frightening, and what hopefully is the last straw that will make us wake up as a civilization to how flawed this theory has been in the first place, is to see that now we're the tree, we're the whale."[23]

This quote originates from Daniel Schmachtenberger's "New Economic Series", which he published three years earlier, in 2017.

Personal life

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Rosenstein lives in a cooperative living space in San Francisco's Mission District, called Agape.[24] He is vegan.[25]

While working at Facebook, Rosenstein was compensated with about 4.863 million Class B shares, worth about $2.43 Billion at $500/share.[26] Additionally, he owns about 16.2% of Asana, valued around $680 million based on a $4 billion valuation for the company.[27] Rosenstein has committed to giving away most of his wealth to philanthropic causes in his lifetime, inspired by The Giving Pledge.[22]

References

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  1. ^ "California Births, 1905 - 1995". Family Tree Legends. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  2. ^ "Asana: Dustin and Justin's Quest for Flow". Businessweek. November 2011. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
  3. ^ "Asana Leadership - Meet Our Leaders". Asana. Archived from the original on September 26, 2020. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  4. ^ "Dustin Moskovitz".
  5. ^ "After IPO, Facebook Gets Serious About Making Money". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  6. ^ "ecorner: Justin Rosenstein". Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner. Archived from the original on October 8, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Insider Perspectives: Ex-Googler Justin Rosenstein on Making the Jump to Facebook" Inside Facebook, July 9, 2007
  8. ^ Hsu, Stephen (July 10, 2006). "Gdrive: codename Platypus". Information Processing weblog.
  9. ^ "Can Tech Make Work Email More Efficient?". The Wall Street Journal. May 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  10. ^ "The inventor of the Facebook Like:"There's always going to be unintended consequences"". alphr.com. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
  11. ^ "In Schrep, Facebook Trusts". Bloomberg. October 19, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
  12. ^ "Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz leaves with engineering manager Justin Rosenstein for start-up". Los Angeles Times. October 2008. Retrieved October 4, 2008.
  13. ^ Asana. "About Asana · Asana". Asana.
  14. ^ "Chicago Ideas Speakers". 2014 Chicago Ideas Week.
  15. ^ "Asana's Justin Rosenstein: How to Talk to Designers If You're Not a Designer". No. The Design Issue. Bloomberg Business. March 2014.
  16. ^ Rosenstein, Justin. "The Future of Work is Not Email". Web Summit. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021.
  17. ^ Rosenstein, Justin (October 2013). "The Way We Work Is Soul-Sucking, But Social Networks Are Not the Fix". Wired.com.
  18. ^ "Author Page: Justin Rosenstein". Fast Company online.
  19. ^ Rosenstein, Justin (January 2012). "Do Great Things". TechCrunch.
  20. ^ "Optimize These 3 Areas in Your Life for Highest Productivity". Time. May 14, 2015.
  21. ^ "OneProject.org". www.oneproject.org.
  22. ^ a b "Keynote by Justin Rosenstein of Asana". TechCrunch. May 2014.
  23. ^ The Social Dilemma (2020) - IMDb, retrieved March 27, 2021
  24. ^ Bowles, Nellie (November 2013). "Tech entrepreneurs revive communal living". SFGate.com.
  25. ^ "Love changes form". www.facebook.com. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
  26. ^ UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, REGISTRATION STATEMENT, Facebook, Inc.
  27. ^ A Huge Week For Facebook Alums Peter Thiel, Dustin Moskovitz And Justin Rosenstein, Yahoo! Finance
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