JEF to host Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes

Jeddah Economic Forum hosts Facebook’s co-founder, Chris Hughes, in a panel titled “Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Enablers” as a primary speaker.
Chris Hughes’ fortune is estimated to be around $100 million, said a press release.
This young man was only a teenager when he co-founded Facebook, working part-time for four years, assisting Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg from their Harvard dormitory room.
Chris was also Facebook’s spokesperson, and became a wealthy person when he was only 23 years old.
Hughes’ initial challenge was not creating a social network, although he does not know anything when it comes to programming and technologies, but his character believes in challenging oneself to reach the set goals.
Hughes grew up in Hickory, North Carolina, and knew exactly what he wanted at an early stage; he wanted to leave Hickory.
He enrolled at Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts at the age of 15, which shocked his parents; Ray, a sales manager at an industrial paper facility, and Brenda, a high school mathematics teacher.
Hughes, their only child, got accepted at the academy, and joined a scholarship program and soon became an academic success story in Andover, whose graduates include George H. W. Bush and George W Bush.
Hughes received another scholarship, but this time at Harvard. He was lucky that his freshman roommate in 2002 was a student studying at Philips Exeter Academy who happens to be a programming wonder: Mark Zuckerberg.
Hughes, who majored in Literature and History, found no hobby in computing, but was fascinated by Mark Zuckerberg’s web project.
Hughes shared some suggestions which showed that he had special insights.
Hughes was the group’s natural sales representative, and subsequently its spokesperson.