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
Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.
I think Twitter is great.
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.
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.
The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?
I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.
You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.