Sean Parker

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

— Sean Parker

#eating #glass #just #like #own

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

— Sean Parker

#been #career #drives #having #i

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. ↗

— Sean Parker

#bring #huge #industry #itunes #money

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

— Sean Parker

#candidates #flux #key #like #roles

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. ↗

— Sean Parker

#diffused #drain #early #gets #investors

There is no simple answer to what I think. ↗

— Sean Parker

#i #i think #simple #think

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. ↗

— Sean Parker

#contracts #get #happening #lot #paid

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. ↗

— Sean Parker

#between #companies #definitely #dissent #labels

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

— Sean Parker

#builds #bureaucracy #comes #inevitably #revolution

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

— Sean Parker

#because #cool #fad #people #product