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Facebook isn’t helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn’t develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There’s a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control – that I wasn’t a puppet.
I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend’s house for two weeks, then move because I didn’t want to become this permanent mooch.
I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn’t making money, but making an impact.
You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere – that’s the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.
Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we’re always talking to candidates for various key roles.
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.
Facebook is such a basic utility. It’s something that is such a part of peoples’ lives, I think it’s hard to imagine it going away.
There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that ‘something’ is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.
You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more – I don’t think it’s ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.
I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.
If there’s some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I’ve gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.
There’s definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren’t working on.
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.
You can now be a master of your own destiny. I’m not sure why you would sign up with a record label.
I think Facebook’s biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook’s power users are overwhelmed with.
There’s a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what’s happening on streaming services.
My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, ‘Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.’
It’s never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it’s definitely not it.
I think Facebook’s biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook’s power users are overwhelmed with.
Look – There’s good creepy and there’s bad creepy. Today’s creepy is tomorrow’s necessity.
You can now be a master of your own destiny. I’m not sure why you would sign up with a record label.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control – that I wasn’t a puppet.
Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we’re always talking to candidates for various key roles.
If there’s some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I’ve gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.
I’ve been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn’t set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.
Gray hats are the ones who think they’re doing good, but they’re not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.
Facebook isn’t helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn’t develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There’s a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.
There is no simple answer to what I think.
There’s definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We’ll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.
I’ve never been much of a joiner.
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend’s house for two weeks, then move because I didn’t want to become this permanent mooch.
