Sean Parker

Businessman

1979-12-03

Quotes by Sean Parker

• 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.

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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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• 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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• Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

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

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

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• 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.

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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 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.

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• 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.'

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