Sean Parker Quotes
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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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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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Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.
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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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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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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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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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You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
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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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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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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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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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Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
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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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I've never been much of a joiner.
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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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What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy
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Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.
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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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I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.