Co-Founder of Facebook to Speak in Maryland

Chris Hughes, the Co-Founder of Facebook and My.BarackObama.com, will speak to the Tech Council of Maryland in Bethesda, Maryland on December 2nd. Hughes's speech will be titled, "The Success of Facebook and My.BarackObama.com: It Can't Get Any Bigger Than This," and will highlight his career beginning two of the most successful start-ups in modern history. After Hughes co-founded Facebook while still an undergraduate at Harvard in 2004, he fell into the role of the site's spokesperson and eventualling it's product manager. After his graduation, in 2007, he began work on presidential candidate Barack Obama's web site, where he became the director of Online Organizing. This web media campaign solidified the internet as a powerful political tool, bringing in over $2 million in donations of less than $200 each. Now, Hughes works as Entrepreneur In Residence at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in technology-based entrepreneurs.

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