Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes
Chris HughesNovember 26, 1983) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth26 November 1983
CityHickory, NC
CountryUnited States of America
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.
Profit per se is not my motive.
My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.
I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
As a child I wanted to become an architect.
What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
Ads shouldn't be in people's way.