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
Anybody can be ambitious.
I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
Buzz is not what I am looking for.
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.
People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.
The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?
You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.
I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.
I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.
I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
In terms of what we offer to advertisers, it's an accessibility to a college audience that is pretty unparalleled,
The idea was to take an information directory and put it online and give students control over what information they wanted to share with each other.