Home / Quotes / Quote by Sean Parker

Quote by Sean Parker

“What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy”

Quote by Sean Parker

Author

Sean Parker is an entrepreneur known for his successful investments in the music streaming industry, particularly in the founding and investment of Napster and Spotify. He has extensive connections in Silicon Valley and has played a significant role in multiple startups. more

You May Also Like

“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”

Ifs Trying Problem Opportunity Challenges Huge Entrepreneur Solve Radar

Author:Sean Parker

“There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.”

“Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.”

Building Products Spotify Napster

Author:Sean Parker

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

Poor Willing Entrepreneur

Author:Sean Parker

“It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.”

Hard Next Creator

Author:Bram Cohen

“Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.”

Thinking Enough Use Technology Information Drug Patterns Track Refuse Compromise Users Naive Usage Drug Use Panacea

Author:Bram Cohen

“The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.”

People Mean Hard Bigs Song Industry Cost Size Clue Distribution Bandwidth

Author:Bram Cohen

“At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.”

Want Winning Musician Music Is Spotify

Author:Daniel Ek

“I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.”

Wanted Guy Uncertain

Author:Daniel Ek

“I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.”

Author:Daniel Ek