Sean Parker

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Sean Parker (* 3. December 1979 ) is an American Internet - entrepreneurs . He is a co-founder of Napster , Plaxo and Causes , and was a consultant to Facebook Inc.

Life

Parker studied at Oakton High School until 1998. In 1999, Parker co-founded the Napster music exchange . Napster had to be set due to copyright infringement at the instigation of the Recording Industry Association of America in 2001, but was later founded again.

In November 2002, Parker co-founded Plaxo, Inc. , a Californian company that provides social networking services and software for the decentralized management of networked online address books. He left the company after unknown disputes with Sequoia Capital and Ram Shriram.

In 2004, Parker began advising the Facebook team and received a 7% stake in Facebook. When Parker was arrested for cocaine possession , he was forced to leave Facebook.

Since 2006, Parker has been a Managing Partner at the California venture capital firm The Founders Fund . While working there, he became aware of the music streaming service Spotify in 2009 and contacted its founder Daniel Ek . Shortly thereafter, Parker invested $ 15 million in Spotify and later became a member of the board of directors .

In 2015 he founded the Parker Foundation with his wife Alexandra, which they provided with an amount of US $ 600 million. The foundation is dedicated to promoting science ("life sciences"), public health and civic engagement.

reception

In the film The Social Network , which was released in 2010, the role of Parker in the creation of Facebook and his acquaintance with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is discussed. Justin Timberlake took on the role of Sean Parker . Sean Parker himself described the film as a completely made-up story ("a complete work of fiction").

capital

On the Forbes 2018 list, Sean Parker's net worth is estimated at around $ 2.7 billion, making him number 302 on the list.

Web links

Commons : Sean Parker  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ^ Sawers, Paul: You have to see this email from Sean Parker in 2009 pitching his interest in Spotify . thenextweb.com, October 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ Napster founder Sean Parker: 'Spotify will overtake iTunes in two years' . nme.com, March 16, 2012
  3. ^ Levy, Stephen: Steven Levy on Facebook, Spotify and the Future of Music . Wired.com, October 21, 2011
  4. ↑ https://parker.org/about/foundation
  5. ^ Mike Butcher: Sean Parker calls The Social Network “a complete work of fiction”. TechCrunch Europe , January 23, 2011, accessed January 24, 2011 .
  6. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/profile/sean-parker/
personal data
SURNAME Parker, Sean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American internet entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1979