Sean Parker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sean Parker
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Dec 3, 1979(1979-12-03)
Age	45
Birthplace	Herndon
Country	United States
Birth City	Virginia
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Sean Parker Biography

Sean Parker is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on December 3, 1979 in Herndon, Virginia, United States. The industry’s biggest foe following his co-founding of the famous peer-to-peer file sharing program Napster.

His character is He was played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network, the popular Aaron Sorkin film about the development of Facebook. in The Social Network, the well-known Aaron Sorkin film about the creation of Facebook.

Parker attended Oakton High School in Fairfax County, Virginia for two years before transferring to Chantilly High School in 1996 for his junior and senior years. While there, Parker wrote a letter to the school administration and persuaded them to count the time he spent coding in the computer lab as a foreign language class. As a result, towards the end of Parker’s senior year at Chantilly, he was mostly writing code and starting companies. He graduated in 1998. While still in high school, he interned for Mark Pincus (the CEO of Zynga) at Pincus’s Washington D.C. startup FreeLoader. He won the Virginia state computer science fair for developing a Web crawler, and was recruited by the CIA. By his senior year of high school, Parker was earning more than $80,000 a year through various projects, enough to convince his parents to allow him to skip college and pursue a career as an entrepreneur.

When Parker was 15, he met 14-year-old Shawn Fanning over the Internet, where the two bonded over topics like theoretical physics and hacking. A few years later Parker and Fanning, a student at Northeastern University, cofounded Napster, a free file-sharing service for music. Parker raised the initial $50,000, and they launched Napster in June 1999. 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 his wife Alexandra Lenas had their first child together, a daughter in the early part of 2013. They had a son in 2014.

Sean Parker Net Worth

Sean Parker is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sean Parker 's net worth $3 Billion. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The two Napster founder 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. began their journey in their teens on the internet, and realized that they had an interest in hacking.

He was an integral part of the creation of Facebook following Napster and also invested in the music streaming service Spotify.

Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and serving as 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. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world’s billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.

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Who is Sean Parker Dating?

According to our records, Sean Parker married to Alexandra Lenas. As of December 1, 2023, Sean Parker’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2006, Parker became managing partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco- based venture capital fund founded by Peter Thiel. Founders Fund is focused on investing in early-stage companies, has $500 million in aggregate capital, and has invested in Quantcast, Path, and Knewton. Parker was given carte blanche by Thiel when finding investments. In 2014, Parker stepped down from his role at Founders Fund to focus on other projects. Parker has also hosted The TechFellow Awards, a partnership between TechCrunch and Founders Fund that annually gives 20 entrepreneurs $100,000 each to invest in startups.

Facts & Trivia

Sean Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sean Parker celebrates birthday on December 3 of every year.

While working at Founders Fund, Parker had been looking to invest in a company that could further Napster’s music sharing mission legally. In 2009, a friend showed him Spotify, a Swedish streaming music service, and Parker sent an email to Spotify’s founder Daniel Ek. The pair traded emails, and in 2010 Parker invested US$15 million in Spotify. Parker, who currently serves on Spotify’s board, negotiated with Warner and Universal on Spotify’s behalf, and in July 2011, Spotify announced its U.S. launch. At Facebook’s f8 conference that year, Parker announced a partnership between Facebook and Spotify, which allowed users to share their Spotify playlists on their Facebook profiles.

Top Facts about Sean Parker

1. Co-founded Napster at age 19.
2. First president of Facebook.
3. Net worth estimated at $7.9 billion.
4. Donated over $1 billion to charity.
5. Founded Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
6. Married singer Alexandra Lenas in 2013.
7. Criticized for lavish wedding in redwood forest.
8. Invested in Spotify, Brigade Media, and others.
9. Supports marijuana legalization and drug policy reform.
10. Advocates for universal basic income and civic engagement