Sean Parker Quotes - Page 2

• 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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  Destiny, Labels, Records

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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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  Thinking, Personality, Investing

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

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• It’s not cool. 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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  Thinking, Dollars, Revolutionary

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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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  Talent, Results, Drains

  "Sean Parker: 'Little Startups Are Ridiculously Over-Funded'". techcrunch.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

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  Napster, Building, Spotify

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• I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

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  Desire, Puppets, Prove

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

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  Thinking, People, Want

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

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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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  Media, The End Of The Day, Vote

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• In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

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  Media, Campaigns, Elements

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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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  Thinking, Information, Overwhelmed

  "Facebook power users 'have gone to Google+ and Twitter'" By Emma Barnett, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2011.

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• The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

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  Wind, Decision, Tree

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• One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

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  Live Life, Lifestyle, Difficulty

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

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  Winning, Revolution, Bureaucracy

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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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  Years, Two, Records

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• There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

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  Artist, Years, Two

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• Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

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  Thinking, Hats, Doing Good

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

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• Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

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  Careers, Entrepreneur, Problem

  "Sean Parker: A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool" By Catharine Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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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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  Artist, Labels, Schemes

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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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  Believe, Self, Would Be

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