Sean Parker Quotes

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

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  Running, Business, Starting Up

  "Sean Parker: 'Now Is The Most Toxic Time Ever In Silicon Valley'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 02, 2012.

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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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  Motivation, Impact, Changing The World

  “Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'” by Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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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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  People, Problem, Things To Do

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• A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

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  Dollars, Social Network, Billions

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• You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

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  Entrepreneur, Poor, Willing

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• The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

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  Entrepreneur, Understanding, Important

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• 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

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  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Challenges

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• I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

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  Focus, Highest, Values

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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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  New Relationship, Bored, Trying

  "Sean Parker ‘Bored’ By Facebook — And It Seems He’s Not The Only One" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

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  Crazy, Ideas, People

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

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  Real, Imagination, Entrepreneur

  Facebook: Sean Parker, www.facebook.com.

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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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  Thinking, Pushing, Push Yourself

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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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  People, Want, Products

  "The many hats of Sean Parker" by Eric Blattberg, www.wired.com. June 22, 2011.

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• If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups

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  Reputation, Worried, Ifs

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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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  Reality, Thinking, Perception

  "Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'" By Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

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  Littles

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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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  Winning, Long, Doe

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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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  Hard Work, New Relationship, Stories

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• 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.

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  Moving, Home, Two

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• 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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  People, Groups, Social

  "Friending the New York Scene" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.

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• Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

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  Creepy, Looks, Today

  "Sean Parker: Facebook Power Users Have Gone to Twitter or Google+". mashable.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I've never been much of a joiner.

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• There is no simple answer to what I think.

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  Simple, Thinking, Answers

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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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  Thinking, Going Away, Imagine

  "Sean Parker ‘Bored’ By Facebook — And It Seems He’s Not The Only One" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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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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  Artist, Way, Streaming

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