Facebook is possibly the most successfull social website ever created. And the two people behind it have decided it is time to move on. Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein have announced that they are planning a new venture, similar to Facebook, but this time aimed at the professional market. It will possibly be more like ecademy.com but with more features, and more user applications, like we see with Facebook.
“Leaving Facebook makes me sad, but I feel I have to follow my passion on this,” Rosenstein said. “I can’t say enough about Facebook and the friends I’ve made here, and I am enormously excited for the company’s future success, a destiny I’m confident it will reach regardless of my participation.”
They are planning to leave Facebook within a month, to start building an “extensible enterprise productivity suite” and a “high-level open-source software development toolkit.” The new software will use the technology used to power Facebook, i.e. Facebook Connect, as a default option for identity and authentication, according to Rosenstein.
The decision to leave was not an easy one to make for the pair. Facebook has been a fantastic success, and to leave such a creation solely in the hands of others is hard for any dedicated software developer. “As our visions for how productivity software could work came into alignment, we thought about building it inside of Facebook,” he said. “It was an attractive option in many ways, and neither of us was eager to exit a company that was in such an exciting phase of its development.”
