Chris Hughes (Facebook)
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Chris R. Hughes (born 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.[dated info]
He also served on the National Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institution in 2005 and 2006.
Chris Hughes is a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard in 2006.
Chris was featured as the cover story of April 2009's Fast Company under the headline "The Kid Who Made Obama President; How Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Unleaded Barack's Base- and Changed Politics and Marketing Forever". 4836921
[edit] References
http://www.out.com/power50/covers.asp?category=32.%20Chris%20Hughes
[edit] External links
- Fast Company, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign"
- Wall Street Journal, "BO, U R So Gr8: How a young tech entrepreneur translated Barack Obama into the idiom of Facebook"
- Official Facebook Press Information
- Chicago Tribune, "Social sites go political," 09/23/07 and photo gallery
- BusinessWeek, "A Hot New Twist on the Old College Try", 7/21/04
- peHUB "Facebook Co-Founder Joins Venture Capital Firm"
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