I left Facebook because I realized the biggest impact I could have wasn't building a social network. It was helping teams actually get work done.
We spent three years in stealth building the product. Most startups would have shipped in six months. We needed it to be right.
I could have retired at 24. I chose to work on the hardest problem I could find instead. Coordination is that problem.
Work about work — the status meetings, the email chains, the "who's doing what" conversations — eats up 60% of people's time. We want to kill that.
I built an internal task tracker at Facebook that people loved. Then I thought — why does only Facebook get to have this?
Effective altruism isn't just about donating money. It's about choosing to work on things that actually matter. Asana is part of that for me.