Quotes by Sean Parker

About Sean Parker:

Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the file-sharing computer service Napster and served as the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also cofounded Plaxo, Causes, and Airtime. As of March 2015, Parker's net worth was estimated to be US$2.7 billion.
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You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

Sean Parker

I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.

Sean Parker

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Sean Parker

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

Sean Parker

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

Sean Parker

I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

Sean Parker

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

Sean Parker

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

Sean Parker

Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Sean Parker

You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

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I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Sean Parker

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect y...

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My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron i...

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Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

Sean Parker

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Sean Parker

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

Sean Parker

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Sean Parker

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

Sean Parker

You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.

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In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

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Author Bio

  • NameSean Parker
  • DescriptionAmerican internet technology entrepreneur
  • BornDecember 3, 1979
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Computer Scientist; Businessperson