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Sean Parker

Net worth $3.4B

Facebook · United States

Born
Dec 03, 1979
Age
46
Source
Facebook
Residence
Los Angeles, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Diploma, High School

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Sean Parker's fortune stems from his brief tenure, at age 24, as Facebook's president. Parker is now a venture capital investor and philanthropist.
  • Parker was a teenage hacker and famously founded filesharing site Napster in 1999.
  • His interest in music led him to invest in Spotify in 2010. He served on the company's board until 2017.
  • He launched his Parker Foundation in 2015 with $600 million earmarked for science, global health and civic engagement.
  • In 2016, his foundation announced a $250 million grant to establish the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
  • Parker became chairman of image-generation startup Stability AI in 2024.
  • Parker, who has asthma and allergies to certain foods, also founded the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford in 2014.
  • Parker bought Brody House in Los Angeles from Ellen DeGeneres for approximately $55 million in 2014.

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