"You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label."
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"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."
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"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.'"
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"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."
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"I've never been much of a joiner."
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"You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad."
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"There is no simple answer to what I think."
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"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."
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"It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool."
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"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."
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"If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups"
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"Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off."
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"I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet."
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"What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy"
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"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."
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"Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been."
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"One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place."
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"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."
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"I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with."
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"In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results."
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