Chris Hughes

I exercise most days.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

I think Twitter is great.

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

Profit per se is not my motive.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.