13 Facts About Justin Rosenstein

Justin Michael Rosenstein was born on May 13,1983 and is an American software programmer and entrepreneur.

Justin Rosenstein co-founded the collaboration software company Asana in 2008.

Justin Rosenstein matriculated to Stanford University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics at age 20.

Justin Rosenstein dropped out of a graduate program in computer science at Stanford in 2004 to join Google as a product manager.

At Google, Justin Rosenstein led projects in Google's communication and collaboration division.

Justin Rosenstein created and wrote the original prototype for Gmail Chat and many of the features in Google's rich text editor.

In May 2007, Justin Rosenstein left Google to become an engineering lead at Facebook, working closely with Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz.

Justin Rosenstein was technical lead in charge of Facebook's Pages, the Facebook Like button, and Facebook Beacon.

In October 2008, Justin Rosenstein left Facebook to co-found the collaborative software company Asana along with Moskovitz.

Justin Rosenstein has published opinions on building effective collaborative software in Wired, leadership strategy and enterprise software design in Fast Company, and entrepreneurship in TechCrunch, and productivity in TIME.

Justin Rosenstein is the founder of a nonprofit organization called One Project.

Justin 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.

Justin Rosenstein has committed to giving away most of his wealth to philanthropic causes in his lifetime, inspired by The Giving Pledge.