Jared Morgenstern

Jared Morgenstern
Morgenstern in 2014
Born
Jared Seth Morgenstern

(1981-03-08) March 8, 1981
Roslyn Heights, New York, United States
Alma materHarvard University
OccupationsDesigner, CEO
EmployerString Theory Inc.
Known forThe third designer hired by Facebook
Websitewww.jaredmorgenstern.com

Jared Seth Morgenstern (born March 8, 1981) is an American designer and entrepreneur. He was the third designer that joined Facebook in its early days and would go on to lead one of facebook's product teams.

Early life and education

Morgenstern was born in New York on the March 8, 1981 and graduated from Harvard University with a Master's and Undergraduate Degree magna cum laude in Computer Science.

Career

Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Morgenstern began working on a social networking website called Metails.com[1] with former classmate, Eddie Lim. Lim and Morgenstern plus a team of two more employees sold Metails.com to Buy.com in 2004.[2]

In January 2006, Morgenstern was recruited[3] to join Facebook as its third designer. At Facebook Jared would eventually lead the product teams working on Virtual Gifts,[4][5] Usernames,[6][7] Games,[8] Social Ads,[9] and the Like button among other projects.

In 2014 Jared joined Kleiner Perkins as an entrepreneur partner.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Metails Careers".
  2. ^ "Buy.com Buys Social Networking Site". socalTECH.com. 2004-10-18. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  3. ^ "How did Jared Morgenstern get recruited to Facebook?". Quora.com. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  4. ^ "Facebook Testing Virtual Gifts". TechCrunch.com. 2007-02-07. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  5. ^ "Charitable Contributions on Facebook Gifts | Facebook Newsroom". Newsroom.fb.com. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  6. ^ "The Facebook Blog | Facebook". Blog.facebook.com. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  7. ^ "Facebook Team Celebrates and Explains the Usernames Launch [Video]". Mashable.com. 2009-06-12. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  8. ^ "Making Games on Facebook Better". Developers.facebook.com. 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  9. ^ "Brandon Brock - Facebook Marketing and Advertising". Facebook. 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
  10. ^ "Jared Morgenstern — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers". Kpcb.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-04. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
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