Quotes from Sean Parker

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

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.

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.

Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

There is no simple answer to what I think.