Jared Seth Morgenstern (born March 8, 1981) is an American designer and entrepreneur who graduated from Harvard University with a Master's and Undergraduate Degree magna cum laude in Computer Science. Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Morgenstern began working on a social networking website 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 as its third designer. At Facebook Jared would eventually lead the product teams working on Virtual Gifts, Usernames, Games, Social Ads, and the Like button among other projects.
In 2014 Jared joined Kleiner Perkins as an entrepreneur partner. In May 2014, he founded Chime out of his apartment in San Francisco.
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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