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" 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. "

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

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" There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services. "

" 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. "

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" You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" Little startups are ridiculously overfunded. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "