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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Sean Parker

Imagine

Facebook

Going

" 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. "

" You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it. "

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

" I've never been much of a joiner. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sean Parker

You

Trying

" 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. "

Sean Parker

Relationship

Work

" 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. "

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

" I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet. "

" Little startups are ridiculously overfunded. "

" I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with. "

" What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy. "

" One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place. "

" 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.' "

" There is no simple answer to what I think. "

" At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sean Parker

Intelligence

World

" It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on. "

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

" 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. "

" Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "