Facebook Co-Founder Joins General Catalyst
Chris Hughes has more professional accomplishments at 26 year-old than most of us will have in a lifetime. He co-founded Facebook with college roomates Mark Zuckerburg and Dustin Moskovitz, before leaving in 2007 to help the fledgling Obama campaign launch an online media strategy. The result was My.BarackObama.com, which many credit with getting the Illinois Senator elected. Now Hughes has a new fulltime gig: Entrepreneur-in-residence with venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners. “Chris has a unique connection to what it takes to build and start entrepreneurial companies, especially those driven by the energy of young people,” says Neil Sequeira, a partner with General Catalyst. “What we really want him to do is to be out there in the community helping young entrepreneurs and encouraging them with infrastructure and guidance.”
