Zitat des Tages von Sean Parker:
You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.
Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
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.
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.
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 want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.
There is no simple answer to what I think.
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.
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.
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
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.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
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.
In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.
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'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.
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.