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
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.
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.
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.
I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.