Jeff Rothschild

Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild is an American billionaire who co-founded several companies. He is the founding engineer and a large shareholder of Facebook.

  • Jeff Rothschild made his fortune at Facebook, which he joined in 2005 as vice president of infrastructure engineering.
  • After five years as the VP, Rothschild took on an advisory role, and left Facebook in June 2015.
  • Before Facebook, Rothschild cofounded Veritas Software, which sold to Symantec in 2004 for $13.5 billion in stock.
  • In March 2018, Rothschild joined the board of Pure Storage, a Mountain View, Calif.-based data storage company.