Sean Parker

“There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.”

“Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.”

“At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.”

“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.”

“It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.”

“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.”

“I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.”

“If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.”

“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.”

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

“You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.”

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

“I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.”

“Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.”

“I've never been much of a joiner.”

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