Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) with Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard in 2004. Moskovitz worked for then Facebook for a few years before leaving in 2008 to co-found Asana Inc (NASDAQ:ASAN) with Justin Rosenstein.
Asana’s mission was simple: to provide a tool to increase productivity and efficiency within the 21st century workplace. In a lot of ways, Moskovitz’s vision for a more efficient online workplace would come to fruition years later, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused millions of workers to pivot from in-person work to remote work.
Asana, like a lot of other Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) companies, rode this major tailwind and the company's share prices soared. Asana’s stock was publicly listed in October 2020, already months after COVID pushed workers online.
