A biography for Sean Parkerhasn’t been written yet.
“You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.”
“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.”
“In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.”
“What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.”
“I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.”
“I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.”
“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.'”
“Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.”
“Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.”
“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.”
“There is no simple answer to what I think.”
“Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.”
“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.”
“Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.”
“I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.”
“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.”