Chris Hughes is Better Than You









dedicated to Jumo Executive Director and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes



"No, I’m not running for office someday,” laughs Chris Hughes on his purchase (amount undisclosed) of a majority stake in the 100-year-old beltway magazine The New Republic. Instead, the veteran of Facebook, the Obama campaign, and cause-themed startup Jumo sounds like the modern media mogul he’s just become. “There has got to be a way for technology to enable people to find the information and conversations that actually inform them about the world,” he says, adding that he plans to grow revenue in print, online, in tablet, and through events. “The audience might not be the size of Facebook,” says Hughes, “but how much time can you spend online and think, What did I just learn?"
—  Chris Hughes’s Big Plans For The (New) New Republic
by Ellen McGirt (via bunnywhite)

(Source: Fast Company, via bunnywhite)








bunnywhite: How annoying is it when people say, “You’re so young”? It goes with the territory. [pauses] I don’t get carded anymore! I read somewhere that you think people are too connected. I think we have to be aware of how we use technology and not letting it control us. I struggle with it. A couple years ago I tried not to use the phone on Sundays. That didn’t last long—a month or two.