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The Facebook IPO Players Club: Sean Parker

BY Kit EatonWed Feb 1, 2012

They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of Facebook's minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (or an estimated $3.4 billion, in Sean Parker's case), here's a look at what got them where they are today. READ»

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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Promotes New Headphones By Way Of Sean Parker

BY Austin CarrMon Dec 5, 2011

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is in a mixing room in Lower Manhattan--but instead of hawking headphones like he's scheduled to do, the Jamaica, Queens-bred rapper is hinting about investing in Spotify and all sorts of other Silicon Valley startups. Looks like G-Unit's getting a VC division.READ»

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To Succeed, Women And Minorities Need To Be Able To Fail

BY Alexa Clay and Jon CamfieldMon Nov 28, 2011

White men are constantly failing in business, and then pick back up and start again. To get others involved in the economy, we need to teach them it's okay to be like a clown and not get it right every time. READ»

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Power Users: Why Google+ Loves Kim Kardashian, And Path Doesn't Friend Justin Bieber

BY Austin CarrFri Nov 11, 2011

Nothing signals the success of a social network or propels its growth more than power users, the influentials who boast both clout and Klout. READ»

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Dropbox Cracks The Enterprise With The Help Of Addicted Users

BY Austin CarrWed Oct 26, 2011

Cloud-syncing and -sharing service Dropbox, founded by CEO Drew Houston, boasts more than 45 million habitual users already. Today, the company sets its sights on the enterprise market with the launch of Dropbox for Teams.READ»

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30 Second MBA: Why Do Businesses Fail?

BY Fast Company StaffWed Jul 20, 2011

Sean Parker, Managing Partner of Founders Fund, answers this business question at 30SecondMBA.com. READ»

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Quora Answer of the Week: The Facebook Hedgehog Edition

BY David ZaxTue Feb 1, 2011

In which we learn how Sean Parker's odd (and prickly) obsession nearly became the Facebook mascot. READ»

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Sean Parker's Phantom Trillions of Illegal Downloads

BY Austin CarrFri Oct 22, 2010

Talk about not hitting your numbers. The Napster co-founder and Facebook investor makes a case for his latest investment, Spotify, based on math that's out by a few trillion or so.READ»

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The Facebook Drama "The Social Network" Won't Show You

BY Ellen McGirtWed Oct 6, 2010

The Social Network is not the feel-good movie of the year--certainly not for Mark Zuckerberg, or for the dozens of exceptionally talented men and women who created Facebook. They were, and are, brilliant, hardworking and imaginative people who managed to survive the uniquely fraught early moments of an online start-up. It was a swirl alright, but not the way the film would have you think.READ»

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Why You Should Care About Sean Parker: The Man Behind Napster, Facebook, and Chatroulette

BY Kit EatonWed Sep 8, 2010

Sean Parker is already famous in today's Web-connected tech world, mythical perhaps. But he's about to get even more famous thanks to a Vanity Fair profile and a movie that's indirectly about his life. READ»

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ChatRoulette Is Down, New Version Coming Tomorrow--But Do We Care?

BY Dan NosowitzMon Aug 23, 2010

ChatRoulette's parade of strangers, jokes, and horrifying male nudity made it the talk of the Internet for a good few weeks. Version 2.0 is coming soon, but do we care?READ»

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If Privacy Is the New Celebrity, Then Ashton Kutcher Needs a New Career

BY Noah RobischonFri May 7, 2010

The Internet is turning lots of nobodies into celebrities. The trouble is, they get all the downside of being famous--people harass them online--and none of the upside, like getting a better table at a fancy restaurant. Founders ...READ»

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Sean Parker: Facebook Should Not Have Won, MySpace Blew It

BY Noah RobischonThu Apr 29, 2010

Why did Friendster and MySpace fail where Facebook found phenomenal success? It's not that the site was better marketed, designed or had fancier code, according to Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook and ...READ»

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Let's Get Physical: Facebook's Got Traffic, but Twitter's Got Foot Traffic

BY Addy DugdaleThu Apr 22, 2010

First Twitter outgrew its nest, the one made popular by a flock of tech savants who, themselves, had outgrown their blogs. Only now, though, have the social media site's founders finally figured out how to shake the money from their ...READ»