Sean Parker
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Los Angeles, California
- Education
- High School (Diploma)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- Meta Platforms20,000 shares @ --META-US
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.
About
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.