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Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, Airtime.com, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement.
Parker invested in Facebook a few years after Napster’s collapse, and as its first president, he helped secure Mark Zuckerberg's total control of the company, eventually making Parker a billionaire.
Napster was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application primarily associated with digital audio file distribution. Founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, the platform originally launched on June 1, 1999. [1] Audio shared on the service was typically encoded in the MP3 format. As the software became popular, the company encountered legal ...
It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich ...
Sean Parker got his start as a teenage hacker before cofounding Napster in 1999. These days, he's a billionaire philanthropist and political donor.
Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched video-chat company Airtime Media in June of this year. Now, four months later, the future of the company is uncertain, and Fanning has ...
Airtime is a joint digital media venture between Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning that launched in June 2012. History. Airtime.com went live for general use on June 5, 2012. The site was launched after a press conference in New York City, which featured a number of major celebrities Snoop Dogg, Olivia Munn and Martha Stewart.
Sean Parker and Prem Akkaraju remain on the board of directors and Prem Akkaraju has been elevated to Executive Chairman. [9] [10] The Screening Room, now renamed SR Labs, has been issued thirteen US technology utility patents involving the company's proprietary software to delivery high quality and secure film content.