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Sean Parker now owns a 5% share of Spotify, which is an music streaming service ( http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsId=3235298) Maybe this should be included somehow —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.246.100.232 ( talk) 15:33, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
he put in $15 million ( http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/mf_spotify/) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.172.193 ( talk) 12:39, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
According to a news article on the Telegraph.co.uk By Jon Swaine in New York Published: 8:13PM BST 10 Oct 2010 titled "Facebook developer donates $100,000 to legalise cannabis campaign it states", "He (Parker) left the company the following year after being arrested for the possession of cocaine, although he was not charged." Can anyone confirm the cocaine possession incident?
32.171.246.253 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:03, 11 October 2010 (UTC).
Just pointing out a typo--there are currently two periods after the word "possession." I can't edit the main article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rastid ( talk • contribs) 15:04, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
In what way was Sean Parker a "founding president" of thefacebook? -- SparqMan 09:20, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
He found the company and named himself president just like he named himself "founder" of napster. Someone should tell him that just because he hears about a new company or meets the founder doesn't entitle him to call himself a "founder" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.113.103 ( talk • contribs)
He also got booted from Facebook, and now does work with Peter Thiel's Founders' Fund... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.146.149.40 ( talk • contribs)
Agreed with above. Not founder. Citation or didn't happen. Ckywht ( talk) 01:26, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
I know he went to Oakton High School, but I can't find a citation. Can anyone help with this? -- 205.128.3.197 17:20, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
He did go to Oakton for a while but I think he actually graduated from Chantilly, for what it's worth. -- Michaelridley ( talk) 13:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
In what way does "In November 2002, Parker Touched himself subsequently Plaxo" make sense? He touched himself and then touched Plaxo?
I gather that "Touched" was a company which was renamed Plaxo? If so this could be made clearer.
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Accel should be
Accel Partners.
Accel is an ATM network, not the VC firm.
76.203.50.254 ( talk) 21:04, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
The line:
"His father began teaching him programming when he was seven years old; at 16, he was sentenced to community service for hacking."
doesn't sound very objective. It seems to suggest that (rather than simply presenting the facts) the author of this entry has strong feelings about Sean Parker's accomplishments, or perhaps the legitimacy of being sentenced for hacking. Not a huge deal, but it could be worded differently. Rinogo ( talk) 23:06, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
In 1999, ASCAP composer Kristian Rex watched helplessly as 250+ Napster users downloaded, stole, and traded his copyrighted recording of his new song "Supernova Girl" from the Disney Channel movie ZENON, 24 hours a day for more than a year, losing him and his family over $100,000 in royalties. To date Mr. Parker has never repaid Mr. Rex for the damages and severe stress this put on his family and his career.
This need some sort of citation, yes? 66.108.34.144 ( talk) 05:03, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
It seems that one of the most common rollbacks on this page is Sean Parker and Northeastern University - I come with the hopes of finally putting this all to rest. Sean Parker has never attended Northeastern. It is my belief that most people, when linking Northeastern and Parker, are actually thinking of Sean Fanning, the co-creator of Napster alongside Parker, who is most assuredly a Northeastern alumni.
Now, though I am loathe to use it as a reference, I offer up Parker's official Facebook profile as evidence (which is rather fitting, don't you think?) that he has never attended Northeastern. Among his many Alma Mater he lists NYU, Columbia and USC among others. Not Northeastern.
Can we finally put this one to rest, or am I misguided and not following protocol? Please - if I am in the wrong, let me know. Until then, I'll WP:BOLD and remove the category. -- Doriftu Speak Up. 16:39, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Come on, we should have more than this. The Forbes article had more info than his page! MyKingdom200 ( talk) 11:53, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
The personal life/pop culture section on this article is pretty weak for someone who basically had a movie based on them and is constantly in the news (and running their mouth)
Where is: -Forbes cover? -Fiance? -That crazy like 5 story mansion in NYC -Twitter? -Media appearances? -ETC ETC
Also some rich people pages have philanthropy pages. 209.117.68.2 ( talk) 21:04, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Dear Wikicommunity,
Please investigate whether Sean Parker attended the following Universities: Columbia University and New York University. I found information regarding his educational background on his public Google+ and Facebook profiles: https://www.facebook.com/Sean and https://plus.google.com/109910390678756726363/about
This is a support for the fact that the Google+ account is real: http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/10/03/sean-parker-uses-google-too/ His facebook page is real because he is friend with Mark Zuckerberg among other technology figures. He has over 20 thousand subscribers on his facebook profile. On his Google+ and Facebook profiles, Columbia and NYU are listed as his educational background.
Please come up with an agreement with regards to his real education.
Thank You, Zoroastrama100 ( talk) 23:21, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
In this independent external from dec 12 2006, it says, the controversial entrepreneur, who has just turned 27" - resolving the subjects birth year as being 1979. This is imo a strong support for the year of birth. Any additional claims for day and months have been so far unreliable. If anyone wants to change this and add a day and month it will require clearly stating here where it is cited to and support from users here that the claim is reliable. Off2riorob ( talk) 00:12, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
User:Zoroastrama100 .. has also been repeatedly inserting this uncited claim, perhaps after discussion here this can be cited independently or rejected. - Off2riorob ( talk) 00:15, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
In 2011 Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker are again teaming up create a new startup called Airtime.com inspired by Chatroulette. The two have completed an $8.3 million series A financing from Founders Fund, Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Yuri Milner, Ron Conway, Marissa Mayer, Ashton Kutcher, will.i.am, Scott Braun, and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington.
Posted to assist investigation and discussion and not for republication - co-founder or founder comments from Parker about his wiki page - "I was definitely, technically a co founder of Napster" ....."there are a variety of weird people that are on the Internet that are constantly mangling my wikipedia" .... "there were three founders of the company who held founding stock at the time we incorporated the company" - "me, Shawn Fanning and a character by the name of John Fanning,who was Shawn's uncle" - "I was actually working on the product long before the company was incorporated, so if that doesn't qualify me I don't know what does" Off2riorob ( talk) 16:24, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
I'm going to go through this page and perform some clean-up over the next few days. I found a bunch of sources that aren't currently listed on the page, and a lot of the info from the Forbes and Vanity Fair articles is missing. It looks like this page is pretty sparse on details for a guy who's been so active in the internet community. Mark Zuckerberg's and Peter Thiel's pages are two or three times as long -- Parker's page should have a similar length. Svernon19 ( talk) 01:34, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Svernon, with respect to the co-founder issue, I don't have the energy to review your cites as compared to the cites that were there before. This has been disputed over and over by many editors. One more thing: the current state of the Parker article is now inconsistent with the Napster article on this issue.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:12, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Svernon: I noticed that you didn't think that Sean Parker's work with The Founders Fund warrants a new section. There are lots of references on his work there so I am going to rewrite the section and then you can look over it. MountainMan11 ( talk) 21:52, 17 November 2011 (UTC)