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Chris Hughes

@chrishughes

American entrepreneur

Building Facebook as Founder · United States

Key facts

Born
1983
Educated at
Harvard University · Phillips Academy · Harvard College

About

Chris Hughes is an entrepreneur and computer scientist, born in 1983 in Hickory. They studied at Harvard University.

In context

Facebook was founded in 2004 and has no closure on record. Among the 5 other social networking service companies founded in the 2000s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 7 years.

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Contribution

Chris's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.

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