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Dustin Moskovitz
Status
Born in 1984 (age –). Living in San Francisco, California.
Criminal status: No convictions
Summary
Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Facebook in 2004 with Mark Zuckerberg while students at Harvard, serving as the company's first CTO and VP of Engineering. He left in 2008 to co-found Asana, a project management and work coordination platform, where he served as CEO for 17 years before stepping down in July 2025 to become Board Chair. Asana continues to grow as an AI-native collaboration tool.
Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna co-founded Good Ventures in 2011 and signed the Giving Pledge in 2010, committing to donate the majority of their wealth. Their philanthropic organization, originally Open Philanthropy, rebranded as Coefficient Giving in November 2025 to expand into a multi-donor fund. As of 2025, they have directed over $4 billion in grants across global health, AI safety, pandemic preparedness, criminal justice reform, and environmental research, and plan to give faster than they earn.
Business Relationships
Co-founded Facebook in 2004 with Mark Zuckerberg, who led the company as CEO. Co-founded Asana in 2008 with engineer Justin Rosenstein, who later departed the company. Co-founded Good Ventures in 2011 with his wife Cari Tuna, who chairs Coefficient Giving and oversees philanthropic strategy.
Ownership
Moskovitz held approximately 53% of Asana shares at the time of his July 2025 CEO transition; he remains the company's largest shareholder and Board Chair. The Good Ventures Foundation holds approximately $10 billion in assets and serves as the primary funder of Coefficient Giving's grantmaking, which Tuna chairs.
Family & Heirs
Married Cari Tuna in 2013 after meeting on a blind date; she is his primary partner in all philanthropic decision-making through Good Ventures and Coefficient Giving. Their lifetime giving commitment of $20 billion substantially exceeds Moskovitz's current personal net worth.
Evidence
2010-08-04 - 😇 - Signed Giving Pledge to donate majority of wealth to philanthropy
2016-09-08 - 😈 - Committed $20M to Clinton campaign and Democrats in 2016 election
2020-11-11 - 😈 - Donated $20M+ to Future Forward PAC and $800K to Biden campaign in 2020 election
2021-11-16 - 😇 - Open Philanthropy launched Just Impact with $50M seed; over $207M in criminal justice reform grants
2023-02-01 - 😇 - Open Philanthropy funded $900K for solar geoengineering research for Global South scientists
2024-10-01 - 😇 - Asana ranked #33 in Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology 2024
2024-11-01 - 😈 - Donated $38M to pro-Harris super PACs as largest individual donor to Harris campaign in 2024
2025-11-07 - 😇 - Moskovitz and Tuna donated over $4B including $600M+ in fiscal 2025; focused on malaria prevention, vitamin A deficiency, and clean water
2025-11-18 - 😇 - Open Philanthropy rebrands as Coefficient Giving; $100M+ to AI safety; $40M Lead Exposure Action Fund; $200M+ from additional donors
Analysis
Moskovitz's philanthropic record is among the most ambitious documented for any active billionaire. His $20 billion lifetime giving commitment exceeds his current net worth, and his foundation directs over $600 million annually across global health, AI safety, criminal justice reform, and pandemic preparedness. The scale and breadth of this giving — from malaria prevention to AI safety research to criminal justice reform — reflects documented high-impact intentions backed by real capital.
His documented political giving spans three presidential cycles, totaling tens of millions of dollars per cycle directed primarily to defeat a specific candidate. Whether donations framed as protecting democracy exercise the same antidemocratic influence as policy-specific donations is a question that reasonable people answer differently.
The resulting record is genuinely mixed. Extraordinary philanthropic output on one side, and a consistent pattern of outsized political influence spending on the other. Both are documented and substantial; neither cancels the other.
Questions
Does funding causes widely perceived as defending democratic institutions — such as defeating a candidate accused of autocratic tendencies — change how we assess whether a billionaire mega-donation undermines democratic representation? Moskovitz's lifetime giving pledge commits more than his total net worth to charity; should that sustained commitment change how we weigh a consistent pattern of large political donations?
His involvement in AI safety funding creates an unusual position: Coefficient Giving funds AI safety research while he simultaneously profits from AI development through Asana. How should we assess philanthropists whose charitable giving directly intersects with their core business interests?
Redemption Arc
Moskovitz is accelerating his philanthropy, with giving outpacing earnings and Coefficient Giving attracting $200M+ from additional donors in 2025 alone. His trajectory through philanthropy is strongly positive and accelerating.