Facebook’s cofounder never wanted to be the boss: Like 82% of managers, Dustin Moskovitz fell into the job—and found it ‘quite exhausting’

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Some were born to lead. But many are just “accidental managers.” Take Dustin Moskovitz. The millennial cofounded Facebook with his Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, and went on to become the company’s first CTO before leaving to found Asana, a project management platform, in 2008.

Again, Moskovitz led the startup (this time as CEO), taking the company public in September 2020 and growing it into the $3 billion company it is today, before stepping down last year. But looking back, he admitted the top job was never really for him.