Jared Morgenstern

American designer and entrepreneur

Jared Morgenstern

Born|

Jared Seth Morgenstern

(1981-03-08) March 8, 1981 (age 44)

Roslyn Heights, New York, U.S.

Education| Harvard University
Occupation(s)| Designer, CEO
Employer| String Theory Inc.
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]

## References

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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.

## External links

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* Jared giving a TEDx talk in Tel Aviv, Israel
* Jared Morgenstern - האיש שהביא לנו את ה"לייק" בישראל — Jared discussing creating the Like button