About Dave Morin
Dave is a visionary entrepreneur, technologist, and businessman. Currently, he is the Senior Platform Manager at the internet’s leading social utility, Facebook.
Previously, Dave held positions at Apple, including Manager, Creation & Collaboration and Worldwide Manager of Student Marketing. He also founded a design focused technology and internet software company called DM Design Studios. Dave has appeared in publications such as CNN, BusinessWeek, Money, Business 2.0, TechCrunch, CNET, Chicago Tribune, and VentureBeat. A passionate and well received speaker, Dave has delivered keynotes and participated in events worldwide such as South by Southwest, Future of Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, SNAP Summit, Microsoft MIX, Foo Camp, and the incredible syndicate of Facebook Developer Garages. His focus on innovation, vision, and technology strategy has involved extensive interaction with the global market at large. Dave received a dual B.S. in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up in the big sky state of Montana, where he became ranked as one of the top 60 downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives in San Francisco’s legendary North Beach district.
Extended Bio
Born in Helena, Montana, Dave grew up in the big sky state and became passionate about technology at an early age, teaching his teachers HyperCard, Logo, and BASIC in his spare time in elementary school. While growing up near the mountains, Dave took an interest in ski racing due to a long family lineage in the sport (his mother was on the junior national team, uncle on the US Olympic team, and grandfather was the vice president of the International Ski Federation). By the time he graduated high school he was ranked as one of the top 60 alpine downhill ski racers in America.
In his college years he attended the University of Colorado at Boulder to ski race and pursue an education near the mountains. The internet revolution started during his freshman year, and he founded a design-focused technology and internet company called DM Design Studios. He also became president of the Colorado Alpha Chapter of Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity. Along the way he also developed a love for economic thought and subsequently graduated with a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the School of Economics and the Leeds School of Business.
Then he headed for Silicon Valley, with the hopes of “figuring it out.” The rest is history:
Currently, Dave is the Senior Platform Manager at the internet’s leading social utility, Facebook. Dave led the launch of the revolutionary Facebook Platform, the world’s first social platform. Today, the Facebook Platform commmunity has over 400,000 developers who have built over 40,000 applications which have been installed over 1 billion times by over 80 million people worldwide.
Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives and half of the users return daily. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
Apple
At Apple, Dave began his career as the Manager of Student Marketing worldwide, overseeing a worldwide network of over 900 student representatives, as well as online and offline marketing strategy. It was in this role that he pioneered social media marketing strategy as the first marketer to engage the social network site Facebook (then thefacebook.com), creating the “Apple Students” group which subsequently skyrocketed to over 500,000 members, and was one of Apple’s most successful digital media strategies ever, and the first of its kind.
Dave then moved on to product strategy taking on the role of Manager of Creation and Collaboration technologies. He was instrumental in evolving Mac OS X Leopard to be the most advanced web development platform on earth by incorporating technologies such as Ruby on Rails. And, was involved in product strategy around Apple’s world-class consumer creation software packages: iLife ‘08 and iWork ‘08. He also contributed to the iTunes U strategy which has redefined how educational content is distributed to students all over the world. He also had a dream of one day integrating the social graph into the Mac OS X operating system…
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.
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