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Dustin Moskovitz

Co-Founder & Chair, Asana

Search every verified Dustin Moskovitz interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder and chair of Asana, appeared on a podcast in August 2026 where he discussed energy management and burnout in the tech industry. He stated that the culture of sprinting and focusing on short-term productivity leads to burnout, and that he has observed this at both Facebook and Asana. Moskovitz also commented on artificial intelligence, saying he finds the risks "very serious" but is less concerned about their likelihood than some others, and expressed optimism about humanity's resilience. He added that he is enthusiastic about AI's capabilities, describing it as "amazing" while acknowledging the potential existential risk. In a separate 2011 appearance, Moskovitz discussed the early days of Facebook and Asana. He recalled that he and Mark Zuckerberg were randomly paired as roommates at Harvard. Regarding Asana's enterprise strategy, Moskovitz said that the company's lack of experience selling to businesses was actually an advantage, as he believed enterprise software's lack of appeal was due to past sales methods. He also noted that the biggest mistake Facebook made was entertaining the idea of selling the company, as they never truly wanted to.

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“We absolutely think it's a hundred billion dollar business or whatever price you might think Facebook is worth right now.”

“The only reason Enterprise isn't sexy is is entirely about how the product's been sold in the past. So from that light, the fact that we don't know how to sell to businesses is actually a pro.”

“Everyone, you know, I was like, 'Billion, you know, of course, course we can do better than that.' And everyone else was like, 'That's crazy.'”

“The sort of number one mistake that we made then was was sort of entertaining the idea at all that we were planning to sell because we never really wanted to. And we kind of got caught up in this mindset that it's foolish not to to see what's out there, not to see what the safe route looks like.”

“I really believe that nuclear power generation is a necessary part of our future and, as long as it can be done safely, that's actually going to be the thing that's going to be by far the cleanest environmentally and the most sustainable.”

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