Sean Parker quotes

Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Napster and the first president of Facebook. His ventures have had a major impact on the music industry and social networking. He continues to influence technology and philanthropy through various startups and investments. Here are 37 of his quotes:

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

Sean Parker

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 is only going to use it to win your trust.'

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

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What you don't want is a product to be cool. You want it to be a part of people's everyday life.

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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.

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I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

Sean Parker

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

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One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

Sean Parker

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

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.

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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.

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I've never been much of a joiner.

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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.

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There is no simple answer to what I think.

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Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

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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 of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

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

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Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

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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 of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

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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

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

Sean Parker

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.

Sean Parker