Sean Parker Quotes
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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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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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You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
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If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups
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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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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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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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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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I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.
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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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Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
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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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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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The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.
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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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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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I've never been much of a joiner.
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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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Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.
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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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You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.
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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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Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.
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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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There is no simple answer to what I think.
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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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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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It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.
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A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.
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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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