Jared Seth Morgenstern (born March 8, 1981) is an American designer and entrepreneur who graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

with a Master's and Undergraduate Degree ''magna cum laude'' in

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

. Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Morgenstern began working on a

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called Metails.com with former classmate, Eddie Lim. Lim and Morgenstern plus a team of two more employees sold Metails.com to Buy.com in 2004. In January 2006, Morgenstern was recruited to join

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

as its third designer. At Facebook Jared would eventually lead the product teams working on Virtual Gifts, Usernames,

Games A game is a Structure, structured type of play (activity), play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an Educational game, educational tool. Many games are also considered to be Work (human activity), work (such as p ...

, Social Ads, and the

Like button A like button, like option, or recommend button is a feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, news websites and blogs where the user can express that they like or support certain content. Interne ...

among other projects. In 2014 Jared joined

Kleiner Perkins Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneur ...

as an entrepreneur partner.

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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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgenstern, Jared 1981 births Living people American bloggers Web developers American chief executives American computer programmers Facebook employees American designers People from Roslyn Heights, New York 20th-century American Jews Harvard University alumni Kleiner Perkins people 21st-century American Jews