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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.
In his book The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick outlines the story of how Thiel came to make his investment: former Napster and Plaxo employee Sean Parker, who at the time had assumed the title of "President" of Facebook, was seeking investors for Facebook. Parker approached Reid Hoffman, the CEO of work-based social network LinkedIn ...
[20] [21] In 2004, Napster co-founder Sean Parker became company president [22] and the company moved to Palo Alto, California. [23] PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel gave Facebook its first investment. [24] [25] In 2005, the company dropped "the" from its name after purchasing the domain name Facebook.com. [26]
Young Democrats of Georgia president Parker Short got into a spat with Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, slamming him for “crashing our ...
In a new interview, Trey Parker and Matt Stone discussed why the 27th season of South Park won't premiere until after the 2024 election — and Trump's ability to out-satirize them in real life ...
It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich ...
An Instagram account, called Parker And Chloe Forever, was created after the fatal crash and boasts more than 13,000 followers. Chloe tragically died at the scene, the post said.
Also in 2018, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and FIRE President Greg Lukianoff noted in The Coddling of the American Mind that former Facebook president Sean Parker stated in a 2017 interview that the Like button was consciously designed to prime users receiving likes to feel a dopamine rush as part of a "social-validation feedback loop". [118]