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
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.
As a child I wanted to become an architect.
Profit per se is not my motive.
Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.
Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.
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.
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
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.