There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.

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.