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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.
[20] [21] In mid-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]
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 ...
Sean Parker got his start as a teenage hacker before cofounding Napster in 1999. These days, he's a billionaire philanthropist and political donor.
Sean Parker persuaded artist David Choe to take stock instead of cash for painting the walls of Facebook's first office. Now that stock is worth $200 million. This exchange happened back in 2005 ...
Parker invested in Facebook a few years after Napster’s collapse, and as its first president, he helped secure Mark Zuckerberg's total control of the company, eventually making Parker a ...
At the time, both i2hub and Facebook were gaining the attention of the press and growing rapidly in users and publicity. In August 2004, Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Adam D'Angelo, and Sean Parker launched a competing peer-to-peer file sharing service called Wirehog, a precursor to Facebook Platform applications, which was launched in 2007.
Billionaire Sean Parker's donation aims to speed development of more effective cancer treatments by fostering collaboration among leading researchers.