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Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur who is known for co-founding a file-sharing computer service Napster and serving as the first president of Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo an online address book ; Causes a civic technology app and website for campaigning ; Airtime. He is the Founder and Chairman of his philanthropic firm, the Parker Foundation.

Sean was born to Diane and Bruce Parker, who was a U. His mother, Diane Parker was a TV advertising broker. He likes programming and hacking since his early teens.

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Sean was once convicted because he tried to hack a network of a Fortune company and FBI agents tracked the year-old boy through his IP address. He was sentenced to community service owing to his juvenility. In , he married Alexandra Lenas, who is a singer-songwriter. At school, he used to spend most of his time in the computer lab and practicing coding.

Thus, he soon became a passionate programmer and used to intern at companies while studying in his high school. He used to write codes for startup companies. He worked as an intern for Mark Pincus for his startup FreeLoader. He further completed his graduation in He convinced his parents to let him skip college and pursue a career as an entrepreneur.

He was an avid reader and believed in self-learning. He is also the managing partner at the Founders Fund, a venture capital fund founded by Peter Thiel.