Facebook’s cofounder never wanted to be the boss: Like 82% of managers, Dustin Moskovitz fell into the job—and found it ‘quite exhausting’
Source: Fortune ·
Some were born to lead. But many are just “accidental managers.” Take Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, who says he never intended to manage people.
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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. “I just found it quite exhausting,” Moskovitz told Stratechery in a 2025, adding he’s really an introvert. “I don’t like to manage teams,” he admitted, adding it was never his intention to do so—even after founding his second startup, Asana, with Justin Rosenstein. “I’d intended to be more of an independent or head of engineering… Then one thing led to another and I was CEO for 13 years.” The result? Having to “put on this face day after day,” he said. The…