Sean Parker
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Sean Parker
Sean Parker (born 1979) is an American technology businessman and entrepreneur. He co-founded Napster , Plaxo , Causes , and Airtime.
In early 2001 he tried to launch his own Internet company, and to redeem himself. “It had to have the potential to be as big as Napster,” he says.
With a Little Help From His Friends
This is the fourth in a series on Stylish Entrepreneurs (sponsored by Gillette !).
Stylish Technology Entrepreneurs: Sean Parker
Sean Parker: Agent Of Disruption
Pointed toward his 18-acre compound in Marin County, Sean Parker rips through the night fog on the Golden Gate Bridge in a stealthy Audi S6 that masks a Lamborghini engine, one pale hand on the wheel, the other toggling through thousands of songs uploaded on the car’s sound system.
French article
Flamboyant, hédoniste, double extraverti du créateur de Facebook Marc Zuckerberg... le personnage exubérant qu'interprète Justin Timberlake dans le film The Social Network de David Fincher ressemble-t-il vraiment au Sean Parker de la real life ? Si le journaliste David Kirkpatrick, auteur du livre The Facebook Effect, le décrit dans Vanity Fair comme "un oracle du Web, avec un côté débauché," au "style de vie de rock-star", c'est pourtant en toute discrétion que Sean Parker a contribué à façonner internet.
Sean Parker, scourge of record labels, calls the bottom of the music industry
Sean Parker – co-founder of Napster, backer of Spotify – is suddenly very bullish on the old-school record label business. He believes the distribution system which he helped to break is “on the verge of being fixed”, and that now is the time to invest in music again.
His companies