Justin Rosenstein

Justin Rosenstein

Rosenstein circa 2011
Born Justin Michael Rosenstein
May 13, 1983
Alameda County, California, U.S.[1]
Alma mater Stanford University
Occupation Software programmer, entrepreneur
Known for Co-founder of Asana

Justin Michael Rosenstein (born May 13, 1983) is an American software programmer and entrepreneur. He is co-founder (along with Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz) and head of product at the collaboration software company Asana.[2]

Early life

Rosenstein grew up in San Francisco Bay Area and attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland, CA. 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.[3] As an undergraduate, he served as a member of the Mayfield Fellows Program.[4]

Career

Rosenstein dropped out of a graduate program in computer science at Stanford in 2004 to join Google as a product manager.[5] 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.[6] He also invented and wrote the original prototype for Gmail Chat [7] 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.[5] He was technical lead in charge of Facebook's Pages, the Facebook Like button, and Facebook Beacon. He was compensated with 4,863,335 Class B shares ($341 million at $70/share), which he deposited into a trust.[8]

In October 2008, Rosenstein left Facebook to co-found the collaborative software company Asana along with Moskovitz.[9] On its website, Asana states its mission is to “help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly.”[10] Rosenstein leads product and design at Asana. He is a frequent speaker on issues of business and technology.[11][12][13] He has published opinions on building effective collaborative software in Wired,[14] leadership strategy and enterprise software design in Fast Company,[15] and entrepreneurship in TechCrunch.[16]

One Project

Rosenstein is the founder of a nonprofit organization called One Project.[17] 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.”.[18]

Personal life

Rosenstein lives in a cooperative living space in San Francisco's Mission District, called Agape.[19] He has also committed to giving away most of his wealth to philanthropic causes in his lifetime, inspired by The Giving Pledge.[18]

References

  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 31 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "After IPO, Facebook Gets Serious About Making Money". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  4. ↑ "ecorner: Justin Rosenstein". Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Insider Perspectives: Ex-Googler Justin Rosenstein on Making the Jump to Facebook" Inside Facebook, 9 July 2007
  6. ↑ Hsu, Stephen. "Gdrive: codename Platypus". Information Processing weblog.
  7. ↑ "Can Tech Make Work Email More Efficient?". The Wall Street Journal. May 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  8. ↑ UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, REGISTRATION STATEMENT, Facebook, Inc.
  9. ↑ "Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz leaves with engineering manager Justin Rosenstein for start-up". Los Angeles Times. October 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
  10. ↑ http://www.asana.com/company
  11. ↑ "Chicago Ideas Speakers". 2014 Chicago Ideas Week.
  12. ↑ "Asana's Justin Rosenstein: How to Talk to Designers If You're Not a Designer" (The Design Issue). Bloomberg Business. March 2014.
  13. ↑ Rosenstein, Justin. "The Future of Work is Not Email". Web Summit.
  14. ↑ Rosenstein, Justin (October 2013). "The Way We Work Is Soul-Sucking, But Social Networks Are Not the Fix". Wired.com.
  15. ↑ "Author Page: Justin Rosenstein". Fast Company online.
  16. ↑ Rosenstein, Justin (January 2012). "Do Great Things". TechCrunch.
  17. ↑ http://www.oneproject.org
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Keynote by Justin Rosenstein of Asana". TechCrunch. May 2014.
  19. ↑ Bowles, Nellie (November 2013). "Tech entrepreneurs revive communal living". SFGate.com.