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- Marketcrafters
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Key facts
- Born
- Christopher Hughes , ( 1983-11-26 ) November 26, 1983 (age 42) , Hickory, North Carolina , U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA ), The New School ( MA )
- Occupation
- Entrepreneur
- Known for
- Co-founder of Facebook
- Political party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Sean Eldridge ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. June 30, 2012</span>"}]]}'>2012 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Chris
- Family name
- Hughes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hickory
- Spouse
- Sean Eldridge
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Official website
- chrishughes.tumblr.com
- Image
- Chris Hughes (cropped).jpg
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- Chris Hughes
- date of birth
- 1983-11-26
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Encyclopedic overview
Christopher Hughes (born November 26, 1983) 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.
Hughes co-founded the Economic Security Project (ESP) in 2016. In 2018, he published Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn and in 2025 he published Marketcrafters: The 100-year Struggle to Shape the American Economy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chris Hughes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.