Perhaps he got poked one too many times, or bitten by a zombie-frisbee-ninja, but Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is quitting to start up his own venture, an open-source “extensible enterprise productivity suite”. No, us neither.
Moskovitz, who founded Facebook with CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, will also be taking engineering exec Justin Rosenstein with him when they leave to work on the mysterious new project in a month’s time.
As far as we can deduce, the pair will work on a series of office apps that use the Facebook Connect validation system for authentication – which sounds a lot like Google Docs for when your friend’s dropped his phone down the toilet and needs all your numbers again.
The pair’s departure is a big blow for Facebook, which has been bleeding key staff for months now. Moskovitz insisted in an e-mail that his “timing in leaving is not an indication that I have lost faith in our ability to succeed”, but with Facebook still struggling to realise all those potential revenue streams it’s been sitting on, perhaps actions speak louder than words.
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