Technology has addictive qualities that we have to address, and that product designers are working to make those products more addictive, and we need to rein that back as much as possible, financial services, consumer product goods, food — in technology, the government’s going to have to be involved.

Sean Parker

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

Sean Parker

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You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

Sean Parker

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It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

Sean Parker

things-to-do problem people

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Sean Parker

social-network billions dollars

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Sean Parker

impact changing-the-world motivation

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

Sean Parker

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Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

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Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

Sean Parker

bored new-relationship trying

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

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winning doe long

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

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littles

Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

Sean Parker

crazy people ideas

You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

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I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

Sean Parker

hard-work new-relationship stories

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

Sean Parker

push-yourself pushing thinking

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Sean Parker

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I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Sean Parker

perception reality thinking

I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

Sean Parker

home two moving

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Sean Parker

entrepreneur real imagination

I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

Sean Parker

values highest focus

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

Sean Parker

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