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After Chris Hughes destroyed The New Republic [1][2], it would be hard to believe he has no strong financial interest in taking apart Facebook.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8705410

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743425



What is the financial interest he has in breaking facebook? How's it related to his failure at The New Republic?


Some of Facebook's primary competitors are traditional news media outlets. Chris Hughes still owns Facebook stock (I think). If Hughes can take down a newspaper, that's one less competitor for Facebook, and his stock goes up.

http://whoownsfacebook.com/#Hughes




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