Chris Hughes was born on 26 November, 1983. He was born in Hickory, Carolina. Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur. He is the original co-founder of Facebook. He served as a spokesman for the online social networking site, Facebook. He is the co-founder along with the room-mates of Harvard Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin. Not only is this, he is a publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic. He officially purchased the magazine, The New Republic in the year 2012.The New Republic is the Washington D.C.- based politics and arts magazine with a liberal bent. The ownership stake is less than 100 percent. This young entrepreneur is an inspiring man to other young people. He served a great work in the Facebook and without his support Facebook wouldn’t have reach the heights, it is today. He completed his degree of graduation in the year 2006. His net worth is $850 million as reported in the year 2013.

Early Life

Chris Hughes was born in Hickory, North Carolina. He was raised as an evangelical Lutheran and is the only child of his parents. His parents are “Ray Hughes”, father, who was a paper salesman and mother, Brenda Hughes, who is a public school teacher. This young man completed his graduation from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. In the year 2006, Chris Hughes was graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the subject of History and Literature.

Personal Life

Talking about his personal life he is a Gay. As reported in the year 2009, he attended the official first state dinner at Barack Obama’s place along with his husband Sean Eldridge. Sean Eldridge is a political Director of Freedom to Marry. They attended the dinner at Obama’s place when they were just in relationship. Later in the year 2011 in the month of January, it was announced that Sean and Chris will get engaged at the reception in support of Freedom of Marry. Finally, they got married in the year 2012. They together did a hell of fun and reside in the New York in a $2 million residence. Chris Hughes is a very young and multi-millionaire personality. Not only is this, he played a role of an actor in the film, The Social Network.

Career

First of all, he was the coordinator of My.Barackbama.com, which is an online Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, in short, he was the coordinator of the campaign’s online social networking website. He us the master on computer works and very good at coding and development of the software. In the year 2009, he was the cover story of the magazine Fast Company. Beside this, the headline of the magazine was “The Kid Who Made Obama President; How Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Unleashed Barack’s Base- and Changed Politics and Marketing Forever.” Not only is this , in the year 2009, March, it was announced that Hughes was named Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, a Cambridge Massachusetts which is venture-capital firm, from the start of his career he was counted as an entrepreneur.

Now in the year 2010, he founded the Jumo, which is a non-profit social network organization. He was actually the Executive Officer of Jumo which ultimately aims to help people in finding the ways to help the World. In the month of July, 2010, the society UNAIDS appointed Chris Hughes to a 17 member “High Level Commission” of the renowned politicians, business leaders, human rights activists and the unavoidable scientists. The society aims at spearheading a “social and political action campaign over the coming year at galvanizing support for effective HIV prevention programmes. UNAIDS is the abbreviation of joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. In the year 2011, he was invitee of the Bildberg Group and the Swiss 2011 Bildberg conference at the Suvretta House in St. Moritz, Switzerland. And recently in the year 2012, he purchased a majority stake of the magazine, The New Republic and become the editor-in-chief.

Richness

Chris Hughes’s net worth is $850 million. He is one of the youngest entrepreneur of the era. He owned a $2 million house in the district of New York with the reported purpose of permitting Edridge to run the Congressional seat there and they both lived a legendary life. This “sleek and sexy ” home has two bedroom, two bath in Shokan with an in ground pool and a hot tub, overlooking the Ashokan Reservior this palce is really modern and definitely a rich wants to enjoy such place and become happy. Not only is this the couple bought a loft in the year 2010, 50 miles south in Soho, which is purchased for $5 million.  is most of his fortune came from the Facebook Company and is now the editor-in-chief of The New Republic magazine. Not only is this, he invested in Upworthy in October, 2012 and in March of the same year, he invested in NationBuilder. In the year 2011, he was added a position as VP Marketing at Medivo and invested in Fancy in the year 2010. The story is not over yet, he also added to General Catalyst Partners and as a co-founder and Executive Director at Jumo and as a managing Director at MondayCallSolutions and as a Board Member at Fancy.

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The founder of digital sky technologies and a businessman, Yuri Milner has an estimated net worth of $1.8 billion as of March 2014. His net worth is increased by 10 million as compared to his last years income.

Life & Career

Yuri Milner was born into a Jewish family in Moscow. He was born to Bentsion Zakharovtch Milner who was a chief deputy director at the institute of Economics in the Russian Academy of Science. Yuri Milner graduated from Moscow state university in 1985. Yuri became the first non emigrant from the Soviet union to go to the US and attained a degree in MBA from Wharton School of business.
Initially Milner started working at the World Bank at Washington, D.C at the post of Russian banking specialist who focuses on the development of private sector banking. five years after working in the bank, Milner became the CEO of an investment company called Alliance- Menatep. the company was owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The very next year Milner started working at the post of Vice president and Head of investments for Menatep Bank. Later he became the director General of an investment firm called Trinity Investments. it was then when he decided to open an internet company. To open the company he sought funds from his friend Greogory Finger who at that time was working in the US investment fund holding. Milner gathered the investment of $4.5 million with his friend’s help and his friend personally invested another $750,000 from his personal wealth. Soon by 1999 Milner, his friend Finger and investment firm NCH created a company called NetBridge in 1999. By 2000 he became the president of the company. The company worked on various US internet business models and created companies like Portal list, Molotok.ru inspired from eBay, Boom.ru inspired from GeoCities and an online shopping website called shop 24×7 taking the inspiration from Amazon.com. within a year NetBridge merged with Port.ru in 2001 and Milner became the CEO of the new company called Mail.ru. Milner was also the CEO of Neftyanoi the company which is owned by Igor Linshits. Soon in 2005, Milner founded an investment organisation called Digital Sky Technologies. He became the chairman of investment firm in 2006. In 2012, Yuri retained his position of CEO of Mail.ru and Dmitry Grishin was appointed as new chairman of Mail.ru. In 2009 Milner partnered with Mark Zuckerberg and aquired 1.96% stake in Facebook for $200 million. Milner changed his company’s name from Digital Sky Technologies to “Mail.ru Group” in 2010 and his group includes Odnoklassniki.ru, ICQ, small stake in Russian Equivalent of Facebook called VKontakte, and e-Port. Milner became the CEO of DST Golbal and remained as the board of directors of Mail.ru Group. His commercial interest for DST global remained in Zynga, Facebook, and Groupon. In 2011 Milner invested $150,000 in each of the star up program by Y Combinator. the same year his company also invested $800 million in twitter and another $50 million in ZocDoc.

Yuri Milner is married to Julia Milner a former fashion model, artist and photographer in 2004. The couple together has two children.

Wealth

Yuri Milner an international investor and businessman has a net worth of $1.8 billion. His net worth has increased by over $10 million in a year. he earn his tremendously high wealth by making millions of dollars worth of investments in big companies.
The internet investor owns a mansion in Los Altos Hills, California, United States worth $100 million. The mansion is in spread of 18 acres and has built in his home in the area of 25,500 square foot and includes a car wash, tennis court, indoor and out door swimming pools, a ballroom, dinning room, wine cellar, personal gym, personal spa and a home theater. His mansion features 8 bedrooms and 9 baths. currently the mansion is worth over $150 million. and current annual tax bill for the mansion is $304,000

Yuri along with his wife and daughters resides in his penthouse apartment located in San Francisco. his penthouse is covered in marble floor with huge windows overlooking the glittering city. The home is painted with combination of green, orange and purple. One of his rooms in the apartment features nine giant screen TV which airs business channels like CNBC and CNN. The home is in spread of 5000 square feet and features 4 bedrooms and 5 baths. This apartment is currently worth over $50 million.
Apart from this Milner loves to cruse in his luxury cars like Rolls Royce, Maybach, Cadillac and BMW with combined worth of over $350,000.
Apart from spending his tremendously high wealth on luxuries, Milner is closely associated with organisations and research teams working for betterment of Science.

Awards and Recognition

Some of the awards and recognition of Yuri Milner are as follows:
1) The Midas List 2013 by Forbes in May 2013.
2) Power Map’s 500 most powerful people on the planet by Foreign Policy in May 2013.[32]
3) Most Influential 50 by BloombergMarkets in September 2012.
4) The Silicon Valley 100 according to Business Insider in February 2012.
5) Top 50 Digital Power Players by Hollywood Reporter in January 2012.
6) Businessperson of the Year Award by Top 50 Fortune in November 2011.
7) Man of the Year’ by GQ’s Russian Edition in October 2011.
8) Features in Vanity Fair’s New Establishment List 2011 by Vanity Fair.
9) Kommersant of the Year Award in June 2011.
10) The 100 Most Creative People by Fast Company in May 2011.
11) The Midas List of Tech’s Top Investors by Forbes Magazine in April 2011.
12) World’s Billionaires list by Forbes Magazine in March 2011.
13) The Smartest People in Tech by Fortune in July 2010.

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