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40 quotes by Sean Parker

Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) 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 September 2014, Parker's net worth was estimated to be US$3.1 billion.
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I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

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Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

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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.

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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.

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I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

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

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Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

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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... →

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It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

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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.

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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... →

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At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part... →

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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... →

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