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- ▶ 1:12:20 David Rosenthal And after the whole Napster saga, Parker ended up starting the email contact list company called Plaxo, which was kind of its own proto-social network and pioneered email address book exploitation and exporting.
- ▶ 1:13:05 David Rosenthal Sean and his co-founders at Plaxo raise money for Plaxo from venture capitalists, and not just any venture capitalists, the best venture capitalists from Sequoia Capital.
- ▶ 1:13:19 David Rosenthal Plaxo's going fine.
- ▶ 1:13:20 David Rosenthal Sir Michael Moritz is on the board of the company.
- ▶ 1:13:24 David Rosenthal Anyway, after a couple years, Sean Parker ends up getting kicked out of the company by the board.
- ▶ 1:14:29 David Rosenthal So he was, like, between Plaxo and Napster, Friendster, really believed social networking was gonna become a thing.
- ▶ 1:20:30 David Rosenthal Two, I think he also could have been so jaded by the Plaxo experience to say we shouldn't raise venture capital at all.