It Ain’t Easy Being A 1%er Worth 2 Billion Bucks

Ex-Facebook president Sean Parker: ‘You are really attacking
me for being the 1%? I was broke and couch surfing a few years ago’

  By Dylan Stableford Senior Media Reporter The Cutline

(Forbes)

“You guys are really attacking me for being the 1%? I was broke and
couch surfing just a few years ago … I have a whole new set of problems to deal with now: security, extortion attempts, kidnapping threats, death threats,etc. Life better [before]?”

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—A message from Sean Parker–the 31-year-old Napster co-founder,
former Facebook president and Silicon Valley mogul–to Occupy Wall Street protesters, a.k.a the 99%, via Twitter. Parker, who is worth an estimated $2.1 billion, later tweeted that he is “working on a plan to give it all away over time.”

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