Fair Shot Chris Hughes is a very wealthy man. But the cofounder of Facebook didn’t start out that way. His parents are first generation college graduates from small-town North Carolina, one generation removed from the hardscrabble working class of the Great Depression. As he tells it in his new memoir-cum-manifesto, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn , Hughes studied hard and won a scholarship to Phillips Academy Andover, a prestigious New England boarding school, followed by admittance to Harvard. There, he met Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz; the three started a little online college experiment that later […]
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