Back in July, we caught wind of a stealthy startup called theAudience, which purported to be on a mission to help busy celebrities navigate the world of social media. Fittingly, the startup was a product of its own A-list roots, the result of a partnership between Napster, Plaxo and Airtime co-founder and founding president of Facebook, Sean Parker, and Hollywood superagent and William Morris co-CEO Ari Emanuel.
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Sean Parker’s Airtime not ready for primetime
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on June 5, 2012
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Airtime is the new video start-up from Napster founders. While launch is long on glitter, demo of technology was far too buggy.
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Sean Parker: Apple Tried To Keep Spotify Out Of The US
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on May 30, 2012
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Answering a question at AllThingsD, Sean Parker confirmed that “there was some indication” that Apple tried to keep Spotify out of the US market.
“There was some indication that that was happening,” Parker said, “It’s a very small industry in a lot of ways, certainly smaller than it was 12 years ago,” He joked.
Facebook’s swooning stock: Pity Sean Parker and the other gajillionaires
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on May 22, 2012
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A bunch of big Facebook insiders were counting on being able to dump more shares at the IPO price of $ 38. As if.
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Sean Parker And Shawn Fanning’s New Social Video Startup Airtime Staffs Up For Launch
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on March 25, 2012
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A few weeks ago at SXSW, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning briefly mentioned — during a talk about another company they co-founded, Napster — that they were working on a new social video startup called Airtime. Now it looks like the company is gearing up for launch.
Airtime now has a website and a Facebook sign-up button for early access. And it is hiring.
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Al Gore with Sean Parker at SXSW: ‘Occupy democracy!’
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on March 13, 2012
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It’s the early days of using social media to activate people in politics, but America’s former VP and Facebook’s founding president say democracy can be saved–if people get empowered online.
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Sean Parker: Defeating SOPA Was The “Nerd Spring”
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on March 13, 2012
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You might not often connect Al Gore and Sean Parker, but the pair took the stage together this afternoon at South by Southwest, and they made similar points — that the democratic system has been broken by a flood of special interest money, and that the Internet could be the way to fix it.
“To the extent that these new mediums and new media are going to have a role in reforming politics, it’s going to happen because … those systems will make politics more efficient,” said Parker (who, in addition to his more famous roles at Napster and Facebook, is the co-founder of Causes, and also invested in political startups Votizen and NationBuilder). Specifically, he says the Internet could lower the barrier to entry into politics, so people could run effective campaigns without raising vast amounts of money.
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Blog – Five Interesting Things Sean Parker Said Yesterday
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on November 17, 2011
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Sean Parker: Google+ unlikely to topple Facebook
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on October 18, 2011
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For Google+ to unseat Facebook as social networking leader, Google would have to deliver a steady stream of innovations and Facebook would need to let its site deteriorate, Internet icon and Facebook shareholder Sean Parker said on Monday.
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