Success Story Sean Parker

SUCCES STORY : SEAN PARKER

To begin I would like to quote something interesting about Sean parker, one day he said :

“We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re going to live on the internet!”

That's explain his way of thinking-

-He is 32 years old, he was born in 1979 in Herndon, Virginia, U.S.-

Sean Parker is an American serial technology entrepreneur and investor currently serving as a managing partner of a San Francisco based venture capital investment firm called Funders funds.

He is the co-founder of a contact management application company ‘Plaxo’, a revolutionary peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service ‘Napster’, an online fundraising application in Facebook ‘Causes’ and prior founding president of Facebook.

When he was young, Parker was keen on learning computer and playing video games. At the age 7, he was taught Atari 800, a series of 8-bit home computers, by his father.

As a teenager, Parker grew learning programming and hacking. His obsession with hacking landed him in trouble when, at the age 15, he was found guilty of hacking 500 company and was sent to community service.

In 1996, Parker was invited to work as an intern for Mark Pincus, the person who later founded Zynga, and together they worked on a startup called FreeLoader. At the age16, he participated in the Virginia state computer science fair and won it for developing a Web crawler prototype and was hired by the CIA. According to Forbes Magazine he was making over 80,000$ a year even before he completed his high school.

Napster, a peer-to-peer free file sharing service for music, was his first venture which he started with Shawn Fanning and launched in June 1999. In less than a year, Napster was being used by millions of music lovers across the world and was called the fastest growing Internet venture of that time. Parker had to shut down Napster in July 2001 due to several lawsuits and copyright infringement cases against the company.

Concerning PLAXO which was launched in November 2002, was funded through venture capital and was taken over by Comcast in 2008. In the same year in 2008, the website claimed 20 million users and PLAXO was joined to microsoft outlook.

Concerning CAUSES, a non-profit, fundraising application within Facebook, was co-founded by Parker in 2007. Today, it is the biggest online platform across the world for activism with 100 million installed users and has raised more than $30 million for nonprofits causes.

Parker, invested $15 million in SPOTIFYY in 2010 to make Napster’s music sharing system legal. The catalog of Spotify had approximately 15 million songs and approximately ten million registered members. Spotify has about 3 million paid members who pay around $5 to $15 per month to access premium version features.

In one word ; he not attemped to college and now he's billionar.

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