The smartest man on the Internet is a party boy

He was removed from a high school class by FBI, for hacking into public companies purportedly "secure" networks. He is nearly a billionaire based on his shares of Facebook stock and he hangs out with the like of Sting and Sean Lennon. Yes, he is a splendid bundle of contradictions. That is what makes him fascinating.

David Kirkpatrick wrote a wonderful profile in Vanity Fair recently of Shawn Parker.  Shawn parties hard, stays out really, really late and often disappears for weeks at a time.  Oh, by the way, he was also the co-founder of Napster, first President of Facebook, creator of Plaxo and described by many people as one of smartest people in the world.  He was removed from a high school class by FBI, for hacking into public companies purportedly “secure” networks.  He is nearly a billionaire based on his shares of Facebook stock and he hangs out with the like of Sting and Sean Lennon.  Yes, he is a splendid bundle of contradictions.  That is what makes him fascinating.

Justin Timberlake plays Parker in the new Facebook movie, The Social Network.  Read the whole article on Shawn Parker here.

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On this blog, I write about and try to answer practical Oklahoma legal questions. My focus and most experience is in estate planning and business issues including Oklahoma non-compete law. I make a living as an attorney in the law firm I founded, Shawn J. Roberts, P.C. in Oklahoma City. I live in Edmond with my wife Amy and my two children, Sam (19) and David (11). We live precisely in the path of where the "wind comes sweeping down the plains."

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