Sean Parker
Sean Parker
Sean Parkeris an American entrepreneur and philanthropist 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, Airtime, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement. He is the founder and chairman of the Parker Foundation, which focuses on life sciences, global public health, and civic engagement. As of November 2015, Parker's net worth was estimated to be US$2.5 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 December 1979
CityHerndon, VA
CountryUnited States of America
Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those
It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.
The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.
You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
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.
Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.