Parker Tries For Success Once More

It must not be easy being twenty-eight and crazy rich. All that money. All that stuff money gets you. Bleh. Yet Sean Parker soldiers on. And it looks like he’s going to give the big time another go, if wild success will have another round of him. Given the title ‘Wild Boy’ by fellow rebel Om Malik in a recent GigaOM piece, Parker is said to be hard at work on his 4th startup.

Parker rode a wave of Internet stardom from his Napster days to Plaxo (online address book, founded 2001) to Facebook, which he left to be one of the Founders Fund, a coterie of Valley moguls that chose to go from the venture side to the capital side. The Founders Fund was instituted by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, all heads of the PayPal project from the company’s birth to its eventual sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5bn.

Now, though he is still officially on as one of four managing partners in the FF, Sean is allegedly spending most of the 24 hours of every day creating something to do with the activism space.

Such a project would clearly have political purposes, but since his group (despite his synonymous surname with a certain superhero, we suspect he’s working in collaboration with other minds, especially one or two bright bulbs bearing extensive knowledge of government lobbies and the vagaries of capitals throughout the world) is keeping silent about any details for now. Will it have its launch before the American presidential candidate of 2008 nabs the majority? We’ll just have to wait and see what comes of it.

There’s no telling whether this new item will be a success or not, but it’s fair to say that an individual with a reputation for “hitting it bit” once, twice, three times over would wish to knock another one long for old times’ sake.

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