Why This Facebook Cofounder Found Being a CEO ‘Exhausting’ – Business Insider

Horacio Villalobos – Corbis/Getty Images Dustin Moskovitz was the CEO of Asana for over a decade. He recently told Stratechery that it was “quite exhausting.” “I don’t like to manage teams, and it wasn’t my intention when we started Asana,” Moskovitz said. Moskovitz joins many CEOs, including the former heads of TripAdvisor and Stability AI, in admitting dislike of the job. Some are born to be a CEO. Others have it thrust upon them. Dustin Moskovitz cofounded two large, publicly traded companies. The first was Facebook; he was Mark Zuckerberg’s sophomore year roommate. The second was Asana, which he led as CEO for over a decade. Moskovitz stepped down as CEO in July. Despite his history of leadership, he told Stratechery that he didn’t love the role. “I don’t like to manage teams, and it wasn’t my intention when we started Asana,” Moskovitz said. “I’d intended to be more of a independent or Head of Engineering or something again.” Moskovitz said that he found being a CEO “quite exhausting” and that he was “an introvert.” “I had to just kind of put on this face day after day and then in the beginning I was like, ‘Oh, it’s going to
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