David Marcus is the co-founder and CEO at Lightspark, a company created to explore, build and extend the capabilities and utility of Bitcoin. Previously, he was Head of F2 at Facebook, which is Facebook Financing unit and includes Facebook Pay, Novi, and all things Payments and Financial Service. He was previously responsible for Messenger, which is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world daily.
David joined Facebook in 2014 from PayPal where he spent the previous two years as the company’s President and previously as Vice President of Mobile, leading its mobile products and business.
A lifelong entrepreneur, David launched his first two companies in Europe, the first at the age of 23. He moved to Silicon Valley in 2008 where he founded the mobile payments company Zong, which was acquired by PayPal in 2011.
Born in France, David grew up in Paris and Geneva, and he taught himself to write computer code at age 8. He attended the University of Geneva for a year before dropping out to start his first company.
In December 2017, David was appointed to the Coinbase Board of Directors.