Sean Parker Quotes

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Sean Parker

Profession : Businessman

Birth : December 3, 1979

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

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

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You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

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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.

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What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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