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Chris Hughes ( born ) is an American entrepreneur who co - founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site ___MASK59___ , with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg , Dustin Moskovitz , Eduardo Saverin , and Andrew McCollum . He was the publisher and ___MASK42___ - in - chief of " The New Republic " from 2012 to 2016 . Venture ___MASK61___ ( VC ) is a type of private equity , a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small , early - ___MASK21___ , emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential , or which have demonstrated high growth ( in terms of number of employees , annual revenue , or both ). Venture ___MASK61___ firms or funds invest in these early - ___MASK21___ companies in exchange for equity  an ownership stake  in the companies they invest in . Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start - ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful . The start - ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries , such as information technology ( IT ), social media or biotechnology . ___MASK20___ ( ___MASK26___ extensible Window ___MASK96___ ) is a discontinued windowing ___MASK96___ developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid - 1980s . Originally known as " SunDew ", its primary authors were James Gosling and David S . H . Rosenthal . The ___MASK20___ interpreter was based on PostScript ( as was the later Display PostScript , although the two projects were otherwise unrelated ) extending it to allow interaction and multiple " contexts " to support windows . Like PostScript , ___MASK20___ could be used as a complete programming language , but unlike PostScript , ___MASK20___ could be used to make complete interactive programs with mouse support and a GUI . Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ( born ___MASK7___ 14 , 1984 ) is an American computer programmer and ___MASK36___ entrepreneur . He is the chairman , chief executive officer , and co - founder of Facebook . His net worth is estimated to be US $ 53 . 6 billion as of 2017 , ranking him the 5th richest person in the world . Harvard ___MASK99___ is the undergraduate liberal arts ___MASK99___ of Harvard ___MASK38___ . Founded in 1636 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , it is the oldest ___MASK92___ of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious in the world . Eduardo Luiz Saverin ( born 19 ___MASK73___ 1982 ) is a Brazilian ___MASK36___ entrepreneur , economist and angel investor . Saverin is one of the co - founders of Facebook . , he owns 53 million Facebook shares ( approximately 0 . 4 % of all outstanding shares ) and has a net worth of $ 7 . 2 billion , according to " Forbes ". He has also invested in early - ___MASK21___ startups such as Qwiki and Jumio . Twitter is an online ___MASK20___ and ___MASK89___ where users post and interact with messages , " tweets ," restricted to 140 characters . Registered users can post tweets , but those who are unregistered can only read them . Users access Twitter through its ___MASK48___ interface , SMS or a mobile ___MASK33___ app . Twitter Inc . is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world . Menlo ___MASK45___ is a ___MASK78___ at the eastern edge of San Mateo ___MASK1___ , in the San Francisco ___MASK31___ Area of California , in the United States . It is bordered by San Francisco ___MASK31___ on the north and east ; East Palo Alto , Palo Alto , and Stanford to the south ; Atherton , North Fair Oaks , and Redwood City to the west . Menlo ___MASK45___ is one of the most educated cities in the state of California and the United States , with nearly 70 % of its residents having earned a degree . Menlo ___MASK45___ had 32 , 026 inhabitants according to the 2010 United States Census . California is the most populous ___MASK67___ in the United States and the third most extensive by area . Located on the western ( Pacific ___MASK77___ ) coast of the U . S ., California is bordered by the other U . S . states of Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona and shares an international ___MASK6___ with the Mexican ___MASK67___ of Baja California . The ___MASK67___ ___MASK61___ is Sacramento . Los Angeles is California ' s most populous city , and the country ' s second largest after New York City . The ___MASK67___ also has the nation ' s most populous county , Los Angeles County , and its largest county by area , San Bernardino County . ___MASK9___ are ___MASK24___ - mediated technologies that allow the creating and sharing of ___MASK32___ , ideas , career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks . The variety of stand - alone and built - in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition . However , there are some common features . TechCrunch is an online ___MASK8___ of technology ___MASK65___ news . It primarily covers businesses ranging from startups to established firms . TechCrunch was founded by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare in 2005 . Notable journalists and contributors include venture capitalists Chris Dixon and entrepreneur Kevin Rose . Chris Dixon is an American ___MASK36___ entrepreneur and investor . He is the co - founder , and former CEO , of the ___MASK48___ Hunch . He is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz , and previously worked at eBay . A ___MASK89___ ( also social networking site , SNS or social media ) is an online platform that is used by people to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests , activities , backgrounds or real - life connections . The variety of stand - alone and built - in social networking services currently available in the online space introduces challenges of definition ; however , there are some common features : ___MASK59___ ( FB ) is an American for - ___MASK83___ corporation and online social media and ___MASK89___ based in Menlo Park , California . The ___MASK59___ ___MASK48___ was launched on February 4 , 2004 , by Mark Zuckerberg , along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates , Eduardo Saverin , Andrew McCollum , Dustin Moskovitz , and Chris Hughes . J . Michael Arrington ( born ___MASK73___ 13 , 1970 ) is the American ___MASK55___ and former co - ___MASK42___ of TechCrunch , a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start - up communities and the wider technology ___MASK2___ in USA and elsewhere . Magazines such as " Wired " and " Forbes " have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the ___MASK36___ . In 2008 , he was selected by " TIME " Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world . Keith Teare ( born 27 ___MASK14___ 1954 , in Scarborough , North Yorkshire , UK ) is a British technology entrepreneur . He has founded or co - founded several IT companies since the early 1980s . Dustin Aaron Moskovitz ( born ___MASK7___ 22 , 1984 ) is an American ___MASK36___ entrepreneur who co - founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg , Eduardo Saverin , Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes . In 2008 , he left Facebook to co - found Asana with Justin Rosenstein . In March 2011 , " Forbes " reported Moskovitz to be the youngest self - made billionaire in history , on the basis of his 2 . 34 % share in Facebook . A for - ___MASK83___ corporation is an organization which aims to earn ___MASK83___ through its operations and is concerned with its own interests , unlike those of the public ( non - ___MASK83___ corporation ). Brizzly was a third - party Twitter and ___MASK59___ ___MASK41___ . It was unveiled at one of TechCrunch ' s events in 2009 and was acquired by AOL in 2010 . Its features included allowing users to create lists to organize followers , showing user the full in - line links from URL shortening services and showing photos from photo sharing services . It was described as FriendFeed for Twitter . On 28 October 2009 , it released ___MASK59___ integration . On 20 November 2009 , the Brizzly team announced that it was in open beta . Prior to that , using Brizzly was by invitation only . On March 1 , 2012 , Brizzly announced it was shutting down at the end of the month in light of ___MASK70___ commitments by developers to AIM - related work . Robert Kevin ___MASK19___ ( born ___MASK74___ 21 , 1977 ) is an American ___MASK36___ entrepreneur who co - founded Revision3 , Digg , Pownce , and Milk . He also served as production assistant and co - host at TechTV ' s " The Screen Savers ". From 2012 to 2014 , he was a venture partner at GV . He lives in New York City . Andrew McCollum ( born ___MASK35___ 4 , 1983 ) is a co - founder of ___MASK59___ and an angel investor .