Dave Morin is an entrepreneur As an early member of the Facebook team, Dave played a variety of
product, marketing, strategy, and management roles in expanding the
Facebook ecosystem. Most recently, Dave was a co-inventor of Facebook Connect which was
created to make the Internet a more social place. Facebook Connect is
now used by over 80,000 websites and applications to empower over 60
million users to connect and share with their friends across the Web,
the iPhone, and many other devices and consoles. Earlier, Dave was a co-inventor of the revolutionary Facebook
Platform, the world's first social platform. Since launch, the
multi-billion dollar Facebook Platform ecosystem has grown to include
over 1 million developers in 180 countries that have created over
500,000 applications which have been installed over 10 billion times by
over 450 million people worldwide. Prior to Facebook, Dave held positions at Apple in product and
marketing. In his college dorm room, he also founded a small design
focused Internet company called DM Design Studios. A passionate and well received speaker, Dave has delivered keynotes
and spoken at events worldwide such as South by Southwest, Future of Web
Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Le Web, Microsoft MIX, O'Reilly Foo Camp, and
Facebook f8. Dave was named #16 of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2009. Dave received a degree in Economics and Business from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dave grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one
of the top downhill ski racers in the United States. Today, he lives and
works in beautiful San Francisco. |