Adam Mosseri
{{Short description|American businessman (born 1983)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|1|23}}
| birth_place = New York City, US
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| alma_mater = New York University
| known_for = Head of Instagram
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| relatives = Emile Mosseri (brother)
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Adam Mosseri (Hebrew: אדם מוסרי; born January 23, 1983) is an American businessman and the head of Instagram. He formerly was an executive at Facebook, which owns Instagram.
Early life and education
Mosseri was born in New York City to an Egyptian-Israeli Jewish father, a psychotherapist, and an Irish Catholic mother, an architect.(December 16, 2019) [https://mostlyhumanmedia.com/episode-5-adam-mosseri-unfiltered-how-instagrams-ceo-navigates-chaos-anxiety-and-making-bold-moves/ "Adam Mosseri Unfiltered: How Instagram's CEO Navigates Chaos, Anxiety and Making Bold Moves"], Mostly Human Media. Retrieved August 29, 2023. He was raised in Chappaqua, New York and went to Horace Greeley High School. He is the older brother of composer Emile Mosseri.{{Cite web|last=Mosseri|first=Adam|date=April 25, 2021|title=Instagram|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/COHLVizJF8k/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/mosseri/2560064772169293604 |archive-date=2021-12-25 |url-access=registration|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}} He attended New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study to study media and information design{{cite news |last1=Constine |first1=Josh |title=Meet Adam Mosseri, the new head of Instagram |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/01/adam-mosseri-head-of-instagram/ |accessdate=2 October 2018 |publisher=TechCrunch |date=October 1, 2018}} and graduated with a bachelor's degree in information design in 2005.{{cite news |last1=Perry |first1=Alex |title=Who Is Adam Mosseri? Longtime Facebook Exec Named The Head Of Instagram |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/who-adam-mosseri-longtime-facebook-exec-named-head-instagram-2721762 |work=International Business Times |date=October 2, 2018}}{{cite web |title=Advice from Alumni |url=https://gallatin.nyu.edu/about/gallatin-today/where-are-they-now/advice-from-alumni.html |website=Gallatin School of Individualized Study |publisher=NYU}}
Career
In 2003, while studying at NYU, Mosseri started his own design consultancy called Blank Mosseri, which focused on graphic, interaction, and exhibition design.{{cite news |last1=Mangalindan |first1=JP |title=Meet the Facebook insider who's been tapped to lead Instagram |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-facebook-insider-whos-tapped-lead-instagram-184957889.html |publisher=Yahoo Finance |date=October 2, 2018}} His company had offices in New York and San Francisco.{{cite news |last1=Spangler |first1=Todd |title=Facebook Exec Adam Mosseri Named New Instagram Chief, Taking Over With Exit of Co-Founders |url=https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/instagram-head-adam-mosseri-1202963383/ |publisher=Variety |date=October 1, 2018}} In 2007, he joined TokBox as the company's first designer.{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=David |title=Former Facebook News Feed Head Adam Mosseri Is Taking the Reins at Instagram |url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/former-facebook-news-feed-head-adam-mosseri-is-taking-the-reins-at-instagram/ |agency=Adweek |date=October 1, 2018}}
Mosseri joined Facebook as a product designer in 2008. In 2009, Mosseri became a product design manager, and in 2012 became the design director for the company's mobile apps.{{cite news |last1=Yurieff |first1=Kaya |title=Instagram gets a new chief: Facebook vet Adam Mosseri |url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/10/01/technology/instagram-adam-mosseri/index.html |publisher=CNN Tech |date=October 1, 2018}} From 2012 to 2016, Mosseri oversaw Facebook's News Feed section, and from 2016 to May 2018 was vice president of product for Facebook.{{cite news |last1=Burch |first1=Sean |title=Facebook Taps Longtime Exec Adam Mosseri as Next Instagram Chief |url=https://www.thewrap.com/facebook-new-ceo-adam-mosseri/ |publisher=The Wrap |date=September 25, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Christou |first1=Luke |title=Who is Adam Mosseri, Facebook's new Head of Instagram? |url=https://www.verdict.co.uk/who-is-adam-mosseri-instagram/ |publisher=Verdict |date=October 2, 2018}} During his tenure at Facebook, he additionally oversaw Facebook Home, the company's unsuccessful attempt at bringing a mobile homescreen to Android devices.{{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=Kurt |title=Meet Adam Mosseri, Instagram's new boss |url=https://www.recode.net/2018/10/1/17924592/instagram-new-ceo-adam-mosseri-kevin-strom-replacement |publisher=Recode |date=October 1, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Wolverton |first1=Troy |title=Mercury News interview: Adam Mosseri, Facebook's product management director |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/04/19/mercury-news-interview-adam-mosseri-facebooks-product-management-director/ |publisher=The Mercury News |date=April 19, 2013}}
After the 2016 presidential election, Mosseri took it upon himself to become the spokesperson for Facebook's stance on "fake news." During the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mosseri was one of the few Facebook executives who was vocal about Facebook's role in providing security and trustworthy news.{{cite news |last1=Ghosh |first1=Shona |title=This 10-year Facebook loyalist is widely tipped to become Instagram's new CEO |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/adam-mosseri-facebook-tipped-instagram-new-ceo-2018-9 |publisher=Business Insider |date=September 26, 2018}}
In May 2018, Mosseri was named Instagram's vice president of product.{{cite news |last1=Rodriguez |first1=Salvador |title=Facebook names its new head of Instagram |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/01/facebook-names-new-head-of-instagram.html |publisher=CNBC |date=October 1, 2018}} On October 1, 2018, Facebook announced that Mosseri would assume as the new head of Instagram,{{cite news |title=Adam Mosseri to head Instagram |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1436290/adam-mosseri-to-head-instagram |publisher=DAWN |date=October 2, 2018}} following the resignation of the photo-sharing app's founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in September 2018. Mosseri's title as head of Instagram differs from the title of former leadership as CEO as Facebook reserves CEO titles for company founders.{{cite news |last1=Vanian |first1=Jonathan |title=Facebook Names New Instagram Chief After Co-Founders Abruptly Exit |url=http://fortune.com/2018/10/01/facebook-instagram-adam-mosseri/ |publisher=Fortune |date=October 1, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Ortutay |first1=Barbara |title=Longtime Facebook exec Adam Mosseri new head of Instagram |url=https://www.fox23.com/news/longtime-facebook-executive-adam-mosseri-named-instagram-ceo/844804859 |publisher=FOX 23 |date=October 1, 2018 |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005072045/https://www.fox23.com/news/longtime-facebook-executive-adam-mosseri-named-instagram-ceo/844804859 |archive-date=October 5, 2018 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=Facebook Exec Adam Mosseri Named Head of Instagram |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8477929/adam-mosseri-instagram |date=October 2, 2018}} As company head, Mosseri is expected to hire a new executive team and oversee "all functions of the business".{{cite news |last1=Sawers |first1=Paul |title=Instagram's new head is current VP of product Adam Mosseri |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/01/instagrams-new-head-is-current-vp-of-product-adam-mosseri/ |publisher=VentureBeat |date=October 1, 2018}}
Tech industry recognition
In 2015, Business Insider recognized Mosseri as a Facebook "Power Player."{{cite news |last1=D'Onfro |first1=Jillian |last2=Danielson |first2=Tess |title=Power players: the most important Facebook execs you've never heard of |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-important-facebook-execs-youve-never-heard-of-2015-9 |publisher=Business Insider |date=November 11, 2015}}
In 2017, Mosseri was a keynote speaker at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.{{cite news |title=How News Feed works |url=https://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/how-news-feed-works |publisher=International Journalism Festival |date=April 7, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Chiusi |first1=Fabio |title=Facebook's Mosseri on 'false' news: declining, hard to measure and bad for business |url=https://www.poynter.org/news/facebooks-mosseri-false-news-declining-hard-measure-and-bad-business |publisher=Poynter |date=April 9, 2018}}
In 2018, Mosseri spoke alongside Campbell Brown on behalf of Facebook's news features at Recode's Code Media conference.{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Eric |title=Code M Code Media 2018: How to listen to everything from the conference as a podcastedia 2018: How to listen to everything from the conference as a podcast |url=https://www.recode.net/2018/3/3/17073120/code-media-2018-recode-replay-podcast-wojcicki-janice-min-jonah-peretti-lydia-polgreen-rony-abovitz |publisher=Recode |date=March 3, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=Kurt |title=Here are the ways Facebook said it's trying to help publishers |url=https://www.recode.net/2018/2/12/17005058/facebook-help-publishers-news-feed-algorithm-campbell-brown-adam-mosseri-code-media |publisher=Recode |date=February 12, 2018}}
In 2020, he was listed in the Tech category of Fortune's '40 Under 40' list.{{Cite web|title=Adam Mosseri {{!}} 2020 40 under 40 in Tech|url=https://fortune.com/40-under-40/2020/adam-mosseri/|access-date=2020-09-13|website=Fortune|language=en}}
Personal life
Mosseri used to live in London with his wife, Monica Mosseri and in 2023 returned back to California after Meta announced it would transfer or lay off the majority of its London staff.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/20/meta-to-cut-or-relocate-instagram-staff-in-london/|title=Why has Instagram quit London?|first=Chris|last=Price|date=2023-04-20|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=July 17, 2023}}{{cite web |title=Instagram boss Adam Mosseri swaps Silicon Valley for London |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/instagram-boss-adam-mosseri-swaps-silicon-valley-for-london-gww5qz9zt |website=The Times |access-date=24 April 2023}} They have three sons. The Mosseri family is active in local philanthropic causes including the Shanti Project.{{cite news |title=Compassion Universal: 2017 Annual Dinner and Benefit |url=http://www.shanti.org/pdf/CIU_2017_Auction_Donation_Form.pdf |publisher=Shanti Project |date=September 21, 2017 |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005072156/http://www.shanti.org/pdf/CIU_2017_Auction_Donation_Form.pdf |archive-date=October 5, 2018 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last1=Sister Dana |first1=Van Iquity |title=Sister Dana Sez, "I would have never thought to ever be in agreement with the horrible dictator of North Korea…" |url=http://sfbaytimes.com/sister-dana-sez-never-thought-ever-agreement-horrible-dictator-north-korea/ |publisher=San Francisco Bay Times |date=September 21, 2018}} Mosseri has dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship, as his father is Israeli.{{Cite web|last=Solomon|first=Shoshanna|title=4 Israelis in Fortune's '40 under 40′ list of influential businesspeople|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/4-israelis-in-fortunes-40-under-40-list-of-influential-businesspeople/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=www.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US}}
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Category:American businesspeople in the online media industry
Category:American people of Egyptian-Jewish descent
Category:American people of Israeli descent
Category:People from Chappaqua, New York
Category:New York University alumni