Jared Morgenstern Explained

Birth Name:Jared Seth Morgenstern
Birth Date:8 March 1981
Birth Place:Roslyn Heights, New York, U.S.
Education:Harvard University
Employer:String Theory Inc.
Occupation:Designer, CEO
Website:http://www.jaredmorgenstern.com/

Jared Seth Morgenstern (born March 8, 1981) is an American designer and entrepreneur who graduated from Harvard University with a Master's and Undergraduate Degree magna cum laude in Computer Science. 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Metails Careers .
  2. Web site: Buy.com Buys Social Networking Site . socalTECH.com . 2004-10-18 . 2015-04-02.
  3. Web site: How did Jared Morgenstern get recruited to Facebook? . Quora.com . 2015-04-02.
  4. Web site: Facebook Testing Virtual Gifts . TechCrunch.com . 2007-02-07 . 2015-04-02.
  5. Web site: Charitable Contributions on Facebook Gifts | Facebook Newsroom . Newsroom.fb.com . 2 November 2012. 2015-04-02.
  6. Web site: The Facebook Blog | Facebook . Blog.facebook.com . 2015-04-02.
  7. Web site: Facebook Team Celebrates and Explains the Usernames Launch [Video] |publisher=Mashable.com |date=2009-06-12 |accessdate=2015-04-02].
  8. Web site: Making Games on Facebook Better . Developers.facebook.com . 2010-09-21 . 2015-04-02.
  9. Web site: Brandon Brock - Facebook Marketing and Advertising . Facebook . 2009-10-19 . 2015-04-02.
  10. Web site: Jared Morgenstern — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers . Kpcb.com . 2015-04-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150404081133/http://www.kpcb.com/partner/jared-morgenstern . 2015-04-04 .

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