Yahoo: Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Just Sold His Historic D.C. Mansion for $8.6 Million
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Chris Hughes
Christopher Hughes is an American entrepreneur and author who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook until 2007. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016.
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business · American entrepreneur · entrepreneur · businessperson · computer scientist · also Chris Hughes, Hughes
Born 26 November 1983 · Q370321
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: Uefa has formed a rare but fragile united front against Fifa in battle for football’s future | Nick Ames and Matt Hughes
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2025· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “In 2003, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole the program from a classmate, Chris Hughes. Hughes went missing not long after, and Zuckerberg passed off Facebook as his own invention.” False.
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Published Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy
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2018· 2 entries
Published Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn
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Published Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn and in 2025 he published Marketcrafters: The 100-year Struggle to Shape the American Economy
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2016· 1 entry
Hughes put The New Republic up for sale, saying he had "underestimated the difficulty of transitioning an old and traditional institution into a digital media company in today's quickly evolving climate
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2014· 1 entry
Eldridge lost his congressional bid by 29 points
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2011· 1 entry
Hughes and Eldridge announced their engagement in January 2011 at a reception supporting Freedom to Marry.
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2010· 1 entry
Which "aims to help people find ways to help the world"
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2006· 1 entry
After graduating from Harvard, Hughes relocated to Palo Alto to rejoin Zuckerberg and became involved in Facebook again
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2004· 1 entry
Hughes and Zuckerberg traveled to Palo Alto, California
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1983· 1 entry
Born 1983-11-26.
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