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Sean Parker's Wedding Was So Horrible He Has to Make an Apology App
Sam Biddle · 10/22/14 02:26PMSean Parker Bought His Way Onto SF's Minimum Wage Initiative
Kevin Montgomery · 10/08/14 11:05AMLike many other cities across America, San Francisco is attempting to raise its minimum wage and fill a gap caused by federal and state incompetence. The city's voters in the upcoming election will decide whether to up the local minimum wage from $10.74 to $15 an hour, boosting incomes of the most vulnerable workers in the hyper-gentrifying city.
Sean Parker Cozies Up to Republicans
Kevin Montgomery · 07/14/14 04:30PMKamala Harris Picked the Worst Week Ever for a Fundraiser at Airbnb HQ
Nitasha Tiku · 04/24/14 04:49PMLast night, California Attorney General Kamala Harris spoke "truth to power" at a fundraiser hosted at Airbnb's new crisp and airy Soma headquarters. But the only fat cats in the room were the Silicon Valley millionaires and billionaires who are helping to finance her reelection, including Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and Airbnb investor Ron Conway.
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Sam Biddle · 03/20/14 10:13AMSean Parker Is Unemployed
Sam Biddle · 03/06/14 04:45PMSean Parker: My Critics Are Nazis
Nitasha Tiku · 02/24/14 10:50AMSince Friday, I have received four emails from Facebook billionaire Sean Parker. His tone was cordial and calm. He asked me to relay his email address and, later, a private message to his neighbors and I did. That must've been his Dr. Jekyll side. In an "epic rant" to Page Six about the same subject, Parker repeatedly compared me and my employer to attack dogs owned by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's genocidal propagandist.
Sean Parker: "I Don't Check My Facebook Messages That Often"
Nitasha Tiku · 02/21/14 05:20PMDid Sean Parker Mess Up 10th St. Just to Get Fios in His $20 M. Home?
Nitasha Tiku · 02/20/14 11:15PMFormer Facebook president Sean Parker may be almost as disruptive to his New York City neighbors as he was to the California redwoods. A tipster told Valleywag that the outspoken billionaire turned 10th Street in Greenwich Village into a "total clusterfuck" today in order to have Verizon FiOS installed at his $20 million home.
Was Sean Parker a Grammy Seat-Filler for Yoko Ono?
Sam Biddle · 01/27/14 02:11PMNapster Cofounder Shawn Fanning Is Allegedly a Deadbeat Dad [Update]
Nitasha Tiku · 01/22/14 02:35PMWhen Jessica Wigsmoen first met Napster cofounder Shawn Fanning at a party at Sean Parker's West Village party house, she didn't think it would end like this. "I lived in New York, I had a really good life," Wigsmoen told me by phone last week. "I met this guy who acted like prince charming." Now, she claims Fanning is denying child support for their 2-year-old daughter, Scarlett. [Update: Valleywag received new information that Fanning has been sending significant, regular payments for Scarlett's care for two years. Full details at the bottom of the post.]
Sean Parker Goes On Spotify Benders to Curate His "Hipster" Playlist
Nitasha Tiku · 12/10/13 12:53PMSean Parker has a rocky relationship with the press unless (1) there is no word count or (2) it's about a subject he wants to discuss. A new article by Steven Bertoni, who covers the billionaire beat for Forbes, falls into the second category—judging by a sponsored post on Facebook where Parker paid to surface a link to Forbes.
San Francisco Mayor Put in Office By Tech Industry Loves Tech Industry
Nitasha Tiku · 11/12/13 01:21PMA month before San Francisco's last mayoral election, when Ed Lee's rivals struggled to raise funds, Lee was helped along by independent committees like San Franciscans for Jobs and Good Government, a group funded by Ron Conway and Sean Parker. In one quarter alone, they raised $364,000, half from Conway and $100,000 from Parker.
Silicon Valley Attempts to Install Its First Federal Candidate
Nitasha Tiku · 10/22/13 01:51PMSalon's Andrew Leonard has a very thoughtful profile of Ro Khanna, a Democratic Congressional candidate in California and "Silicon Valley’s chosen one." Tech execs like Ron Conway and Marissa Mayer hope Khanna will keep taxes low and government as minimalist as Jony Ive design. It's just the beginning of Silicon Valley's march to Washington and Khanna is its beta test.