Chris Hughes (Facebook)
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For other uses, see Chris Hughes (disambiguation).
Chris Hughes (b. November 26, 1983) co-founded and served as spokesperson for the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Hughes currently serves as a consultant for the popular site, but primarily acts as coordinator of online organizing within the Barack Obama presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online social networking website.
He also served on the National Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institution in 2005 and 2006.
Chris Hughes is a graduate of Philips Academy and Harvard College.
[edit] External links
- Wall Street Journal, "BO, U R So Gr8: How a young tech entrepreneur translated Barack Obama into the idiom of Facebook"
- Washington Post, "New-Media Richcraft Invites Priceless Comparisons"
- Official Facebook Press Information
- Chris Hughes' Facebook Profile
- Chicago Tribune, "Social sites go political," 09/23/07 and photo gallery
- BusinessWeek, "Facebook's on the Block," 3/28/06
- CBS, "Facebook Frenzy," 7/5/05
- Wired News, "Finding Friends with Facebook," 7/3/05
- BusinessWeek, "A Hot New Twist on the Old College Try", 7/21/04
