Silicon Valley — so driven by reputation that the fiercest battles are for credit, not money — needs its own version of the classic saying. Success has, not many fathers, but many founders. The most promising new venture in the Valley right now is Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg's college social network, so it should be no surprise that the founders are popping out of the woodwork, like the fortune hunters claiming paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's baby. Here's one I hadn't heard of: Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg's former roommate and occasional Facebook "spokesman", who has now popped up as Barack Obama's social networking guru, according to a profile in the Wall Street Journal. His credentials? He was a founder of Facebook, of course, though it's not clear whether that title was his idea, or the paper's. That makes about ten founders, if one counts the three early partners of Zuckerberg who claim Facebook sprang from a coding project he was working on for them.
