Gastaldo, Evann. Meet Facebook 'Genius' Sean Parker. Newser. Bertoni, Steven. Sean Parker: Agent of Disruption. Forbes. "Question the audiophile about the best brand of headphones and you first learn how sound waves are registered by our tympanic membranes."; Kirkpatrick, David, "With a Little Help From His Friends", Vanity Fair. "There is hardly a topic—literary, political, medical, or technological—about which he cannot offer an informed and nuanced opinion in his rapid-fire patter. (Don’t get him started on Ben Franklin’s role as a media pioneer.)"; Kirkpatrick, David, "With a Little Help From His Friends", Vanity Fair. "He's always talking about the potential of computers to generate algorithms for likable melodies, and we have this ongoing argument: he believes it’s only a matter of time before computers will be able to create listenable tunes."
Bertoni, Steven. Sean Parker: Agent of Disruption. Forbes. "I kind of refer to it as Napster University—it was a crash course in intellectual property law, corporate finance, entrepreneurship and law school. Some of the e-mails I wrote when I was just a kid who didn’t know what he was doing are apparently in [law school] textbooks."
Bertoni, Steven. Sean Parker: Agent of Disruption. Forbes. “It sounds boring compared to Napster and Facebook, but Plaxo was an early social networking tool and a pioneer of the types of viral tricks that helped grow LinkedIn, Zynga and Facebook. “Plaxo is like the indie band that the public doesn’t know but was really influential with other musicians,” Parker says.”
Bertoni, Steven. Sean Parker: Agent of Disruption. Forbes. "Facebook’s key architect, Parker helped drive Facebook’s minimalist look. He was adamant that the site have a continuous flow and tasks like adding friends be as frictionless as possible."
Gastaldo, Evann. Meet Facebook 'Genius' Sean Parker. Newser. Bertoni, Steven. Sean Parker: Agent of Disruption. Forbes. "Question the audiophile about the best brand of headphones and you first learn how sound waves are registered by our tympanic membranes."; Kirkpatrick, David, "With a Little Help From His Friends", Vanity Fair. "There is hardly a topic—literary, political, medical, or technological—about which he cannot offer an informed and nuanced opinion in his rapid-fire patter. (Don’t get him started on Ben Franklin’s role as a media pioneer.)"; Kirkpatrick, David, "With a Little Help From His Friends", Vanity Fair. "He's always talking about the potential of computers to generate algorithms for likable melodies, and we have this ongoing argument: he believes it’s only a matter of time before computers will be able to create listenable tunes."
Gastaldo, Evann. Meet Facebook 'Genius' Sean Parker. Newser. Bertoni, Steven. Sean Parker: Agent of Disruption. Forbes. "Question the audiophile about the best brand of headphones and you first learn how sound waves are registered by our tympanic membranes."; Kirkpatrick, David, "With a Little Help From His Friends", Vanity Fair. "There is hardly a topic—literary, political, medical, or technological—about which he cannot offer an informed and nuanced opinion in his rapid-fire patter. (Don’t get him started on Ben Franklin’s role as a media pioneer.)"; Kirkpatrick, David, "With a Little Help From His Friends", Vanity Fair. "He's always talking about the potential of computers to generate algorithms for likable melodies, and we have this ongoing argument: he believes it’s only a matter of time before computers will be able to create listenable tunes."
Kirkpatrick, David, "With a Little Help From His Friends", Vanity Fair. "I don’t think Sean ever really left Facebook," says board member Thiel. "He’s continued to be involved in many ways."
Marshall, Matt, "Founders Fund hires Sean Parker as partner, to launch second fund", Venture Beat. "During the post-bubble downturn, Parker got pushed out by Sequoia Capital and Ram Shriram, and there’s been silence over the real reasons ever since. There were reports of private investigators going after Parker... “Sequoia had no chance to invest,” Thiel explains, “because of the way they mistreated him at Plaxo. He’s been treated worse than he deserved."
