Sean Parker Quotes

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

Politics, Money, End

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

Money, Freedom, Wanted

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

Power, Problem, Biggest

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

Trying, Find, Try

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

Start, Blood, Running

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.
Sean Parker

Whatever, Group, Social

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.
Sean Parker

Hard, Away, Lives

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.
Sean Parker

Bored, Trying, Social

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.
Sean Parker

Good, Learn, Shows

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.
Sean Parker

Work, Maybe, Stories

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

Control, Desire, Actually

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.
Sean Parker

Home, Friend, Two

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

Real, Possible, Delusion

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.
Sean Parker

Cool, Made, Become

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.
Sean Parker

Power, Reality, Become

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

Realized, Fit, Investing

I've never been much of a joiner.
Sean Parker

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.
Sean Parker

End, Free, Wanted

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

Truth, Social, While

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

Working, Problems, Seems

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.
Sean Parker

History, End, Takes

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.
Sean Parker

End, Game, Kinds

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.
Sean Parker

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

Good, Today, Bad

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.'
Sean Parker

Trust, Long, Saying

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: 1979

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