Estates and Homes Autos and Cars. About Quotes Trivia. Sean Parker , an Internet technology visionary and entrepreneur, has achieved so much already that it is hard to fathom the fact that he is on his 30's only. Parker most famous for co-founding Napster in that literally ripped apart the music industry. His exploits in the company are well documented in the movie The Social Network.
In , he was forced to leave the company amidst charges of illegal possession of cocaine. At the age of 16, he was sentenced to community service for hacking.
For all the money that he has made for himself, Parker knows how to spend it as well. A lover of good life, he maintains an enviable collection of elegant white shoes and a wardrobe full of Tom Ford suits.
Of late, he has shown keen interest in politics. Within a year, the service had tens of millions of users. Napster was opposed by recording labels, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the heavy metal band Metallica, among others. Lawsuits by various industry associations eventually shut down the service.
Napster has been called the fastest-growing business of all time, is credited with revolutionizing the music industry, and is considered by some to be a precursor to iTunes. He and Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning met in their early teens through the internet, where they discovered that they both shared a love of hacking. In November , Parker launched Plaxo, an online address book and social networking service that integrated with Microsoft Outlook. Plaxo was an early social networking tool, which would later influence the growth of companies like LinkedIn, Zynga, and Facebook.
Plaxo was one of the first products to build virality into its launch, and that earned it 20 million users. Parker had experience in the social networking industry as an early advisor to Friendster and its founder, Jonathan Abrams, for which he was given a small amount of stock in Parker met with Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, and a few months later joined the five-month-old company as its president.
Parker was given carte blanche by Thiel when finding investments. In , Parker stepped down from his role at Founders Fund to focus on other projects.
Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States. Sean Parker celebrates birthday on December 3 of every year. During a party in , police entered and searched a vacation home Parker was renting and found cocaine. Parker was arrested on suspicion of drug possession, but was not charged.
This event caused Facebook investors to pressure Parker into resigning as company president. The event was later dramatized in the movie The Social Network. He once hacked into a Fortune company, but his dad confiscated his keyboard before he could log out. Parker cofounded the file-sharing service Napster in , when he was only 19 years old.
Napster became one of the fastest-growing businesses of all time, as well as one of the most controversial. Parker and his cofounder, Shawn Fanning, are often credited with revolutionizing the music industry.
After several lawsuits from music associations eventually shut down Napster, Parker went on to found a social-networking site called Plaxo. He was ousted two years later. Plaxo shut down in Parker joined the Facebook team in , when it was just a fledgling college startup.
As the social network's founding president, he would play a huge role in the site's early investments, design, and transition into a viable company. In , Parker was arrested on allegations of cocaine possession. Though official charges were never filed, the incident contributed, in part, to his departure from Facebook. He stepped down a few months later. Still, Parker influenced Facebook even after formally departing. He's known for his intense focus.
A former colleague told Vanity Fair that sometimes the best way to get ahold of Parker is to "war dial" him — call him 10 or 20 times in a row until he realizes someone really wants to talk to him. Parker was a managing partner at Thiel's Founders Fund from to He was an early investor in Spotify, playing a major role in bringing it to the US, and served on the company's board until In , Parker and Fanning launched Airtime, a video chat service that was similar to Chatroulette.
The service initially flopped, and was relaunched as an iOS and Android app in The couple has two children together, Winter Victoria and Zephyr Emerson. The historic property borders the Playboy Mansion and is filled with the Parkers' art collection.
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