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
There is no simple answer to what I think.
You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.
Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.
I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.
If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups
The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.
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.
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy
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.
You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.
There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.