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.

He won the Virginia state computer science fair for developing a Web crawler and was recruited by the C. Philanthropy
Parker is an active philanthropist and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer research anti-malaria groups charity: water and marijuana legalization. Parker also hosts The TechFellow Awards a partnership between TechCrunch and The Founders Fund that annually gives 20 entrepreneurs $100000 each to invest in startups.

1 billion. As of March 2012 Parker's net worth was estimated to be $2.