The Facebooker who fell to earth: how Chris Hughes learned to limit his ambitions

The Facebooker who fell to earth: how Chris Hughes learned to limit his ambitions

Chris Hughes Chris Hughes is the first to admit that he’s fortunate. The 34-year-old multi-millionaire grew up in small-town North Carolina, the son of a paper salesman and a public school maths teacher, and won a scholarship to a private boarding school and then a place at Harvard, which is where his luck really kicked in.

During his second year he shared a room with Mark Zuckerberg, someone he didn’t know well but whom he’d often met at parties and who struck him initially as “a genius of some sort, but something of a misanthrope”. When Zuckerberg built Facebook, Hughes, […]

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