Facebook co-founder leaves for new venture

October 7, 2008 Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of the Facebook social networking website

The college roommate who helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook, Dustin Moskovitz, seen here in 2007, is leaving the fast-growing social networking website in a matter of weeks to create a new Internet technology firm.

The college roommate who helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook is leaving the fast-growing social networking website in a matter of weeks to create a new Internet technology firm.

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