Sean Parker
Sign in to saveAmerican entrepreneur, programmer and philanthropist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- World's Fastest Way to Lose Weight!
- Salt in the Milk - Ten Years in Istanbul
- Cougar and the Silver Fox
- Onyxus Chronicles
- Smart Way to Lose Weight. Rapid Weight Loss Using a Sex Diet!
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1920-08-29
- Active to
- 1955-03-12
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 153
- Total plays
- 709
Bio on his Myspace page: Transport EP out now, here there and everywhere, released 01/07/2007...get the 2006 album 'Istanbul', 10 tracks, via INgrooves from iTunes, Napster, eMusic, Rhapsody and most other online stores. 'Transport EP', featuring 'Crack Under The Pressure', 'Spit It Out', 'Syon House' and 'Come Out, See Me Tonight', was produced by Sean and Cagri Erdem between March and July 2007. Past words and reviews: 'it is clear Mr Parker takes <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sean+Parke
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,528x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,174x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,871x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
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Quotes
- “What you don't want is a product to be cool. You want it to be a part of people's everyday life.”
- “It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on. 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.”
- “God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1979-12-03 ) December 3, 1979 (age 46) , Herndon, Virginia , U.S.
- Occupations
- Entrepreneur, investor
- Known for
- Managing Partner at The Founders Fund , Co-founder of Plaxo , Napster , Airtime , and Causes , President of Facebook , Chairman of the Parker Foundation
- Spouse
- Alexandra Lenas ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2013 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, Airtime.com, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement. He is the founder and chairman of the Parker Foundation, which focuses on life sciences, global public health, and civic engagement. According to Forbes, as of May 2025, Parker's estimated net worth stood at US$3.0 billion, placing him in the top 1,250 richest individuals in the world.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sean Parker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.