Back in mid-2018, I found myself on the phone with Sean Parker, the inaugural Facebook president immortalized by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network for deadpan classics like “Drop the ‘The.’ Just ‘Facebook.’” Parker in the 2000s had earned a reputation as an early internet bad boy, founding the music-pirating Napster, mentoring Mark Zuckerberg in his “I’m C.E.O., Bitch” era, and hosting what is probably Silicon Valley’s most infamous wedding, a Tolkien-inspired 2013 bash in the California Redwoods that triggered a fight with environmentalists.
Sean Parker’s Masterstroke & Larry Ellison’s Summer Fling
Theodore Schleifer
September 24, 2021
