Joe D’Ambrose

Web 2.0 Entrepreneur: Sean Parker

I saw this guy’s name somewhere in an issue of Entrepreneur magazine, later in a news release about Napster, and a while back on the Facebook’s ‘about us’ page. So I did a search for him in the Blogosphere and it turns out that he’s a Web 2.0 entrepreneur who founded or co-founded the original Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook. Now he works as a partner for what seems to be a very cool venture capital firm with Peter Theil, The Founders Fund. If you’re interested in internet entrepreneurship or the origins of companies like Facebook, I encourage you to read this blog post by Parker’s friend Numair Faraz entitled “Sean Parker as Jim Clark 2.0“. It’s an interesting read, taking us back 6 years or so into the beginning of this new dotcom boom.