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" 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. "
Expect
Group
People
" At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media. "
Money
Day
End
" 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
Trying
Me
" 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. "
Imagine
Facebook
Going
" Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep. "
You
Doing
Doing Good
" 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. "
Relationship
Work
Me
" I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact. "
Freedom
Motivation
Money
" If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free. "
Story
Wealth
Free
" I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet. "
Control
Desire
Myself
" I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch. "
Home
Friend
Two
" In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results. "
Lot
Media
Results
" I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. "
Possible
Always
Real
" 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. "
Become
I Think
Made
" I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with. "
Problem
Information
Power
" I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. "
Think
Power
Perception
" It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on. "
People
Right
Problems
" It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it. "
Game
End
Facebook
" It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world. "
Intelligence
Me
World
" I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality. "
Think
Doing
Investing
" I've never been much of a joiner. "
Never
Much
Been
" Little startups are ridiculously overfunded. "
Ridiculously
Little
Startups
" Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity. "
Today
Creepy
Bad
" My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.' "
Win
Trust
Dinner
" One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place. "
Hard
Friends
Lifestyle
" 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. "
Problems
Challenge
You
" Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood. "
Eating
Start
Own
" Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been. "
Been
Never
Me
" Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years. "
Returning
Two
Years
" Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles. "
Always
Key
Talking
" 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. "
Own
Early
Talent
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