Biography

Sean Parker

by Monika Bhatt,

Sean Parker is an entrepreneur and philanthropist of American nationality who has been known for being the co-founder of the file-sharing computer service named Napster. He has also served as the first president of the hugely successful network sharing website Facebook and was born on the 3rd of December, 1979 according to his bio. His bio and other details of his personal life have been searched hugely by his fans in networking sites like the wiki.

Before starting his career, Parker attended the Oakton High School for his education. He then transferred into the Chantilly High School and starting writing code when he was enrolled there. After his graduation, he got a chance to intern for the CEO of Zynga, Mark Pincus for having developed a Web crawler. He was even recruited by the C.I.A and he skipped college to pursue a career as an entrepreneur.

His ventures include the development of the music sharing service called Napster which had over tens of thousands of users in its very first year. After opposition from the RIAA and Metallica, the service was shut down. He then invented the social networking site called Plaxo which influenced the growth of Facebook. He has also been credited for playing a part in the development of the social networking site Facebook.  He has also been known to have invested 15 million dollars for Spotify, a music sharing service. Other endeavors of this hugely talented personality include his part in developing Airtime, WillCall and Brigade Media. He is also the advisor to The People’s Operator, a mobile network provider.

This personality who has also been known for the endeavors her has undertaken to eradicate cancer, has been known well also in regards to his personal life. He has been married to long-time girlfriend Alexandra Lenas. His spouse is a singer-songwriter and they got engaged on 2011. Their wedding took place on 2011 and was the talk of media and news after every guest was given a Lord of the Rings style costume and cost 10 million dollars. For the damage that was done to the campsite on Big Sur, he had to pay 2.5 million dollars in penalties. He also has to create a beach mapping map for the same. He has been happily married to his wife with no imminent sings of marital problems or divorce between them. They have had no child yet.

The net worth of Sean Parker is estimated to be a whopping 3 billion dollars and this speaks hugely about the salary he must have earned for his endeavors in the IT field. He has managed to make himself be known all across the world for his highly famous IT services and his philanthropy work.