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Then:: By now, Mr. Parker's influence in the early days of Facebook is the stuff of Hollywood fantasies. (See Social Network, The). Mr. Parker first introduced himself to Mr. Zuckerberg with an email out of blue after Thefacebook spread around Stanford's campus in a matter of days, playing up his Napster cred and connections to Silicon Valley investors. In "The Facebook Effect," David Kirkpatrick wrote, "[Mr. Parker's] willful disregard for business conventions was almost as thorough as Zuckerberg's ignorance of them."



According to Mr. Kirkpatrick, who also penned his Vanity Fair profile, Mr. Parker was pushed out of the company after a year and eight months for an arrest for cocaine possession in 2005, which Jim Breyer, Accel's board member at Facebook took "very seriously." Mr. Kirkpatrick has also stated that Mr. Parker owns 4 percent Facebook stock, however, he is not directly named in the cap table of the S-1 filing.



Now:: Mr. Parker has since amassed a number of titles, including managing partner at Founders Fund along with early Facebook investor Peter Thiel (whom Mr. Parker once accused of playing "dirty tricks"). Presently, he also serves as founder and chairman of Facebook Causes, board member and investor at Spotify, and founder and chairman of Airtime, a stealth project with fellow Napster alum Shawn Fanning. He sits on the board of directors of Yammer, the business-minded social network, where Facebooker Chamath Palihapitiya invested both personally and through his new fund. He's also an advisor to Dustin Moskovitz's startup, Asana.



Mr. Parker joined Twitter last October, with an apology to his former protegee/employer, tweeting out, "Sorry Zuck, I had to do it eventually." His last update, however, might make up for it. Days before Facebook's S-1, Mr. Parker retweeted portentous words from Fortune.com's Dan Primack: "Facebook mafia is coming."



(Photo: Wikimedia)

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Then:: By now, Mr. Parker's influence in the early days of Facebook is the stuff of Hollywood fantasies. (See Social Network, The). Mr. Parker first introduced himself to Mr. Zuckerberg with an email out of blue after Thefacebook spread around Stanford's campus in a matter of days, playing up his Napster cred and connections to Silicon Valley investors. In "The Facebook Effect," David Kirkpatrick wrote, "[Mr. Parker's] willful disregard for business conventions was almost as thorough as Zuckerberg's ignorance of them."



According to Mr. Kirkpatrick, who also penned his Vanity Fair profile, Mr. Parker was pushed out of the company after a year and eight months for an arrest for cocaine possession in 2005, which Jim Breyer, Accel's board member at Facebook took "very seriously." Mr. Kirkpatrick has also stated that Mr. Parker owns 4 percent Facebook stock, however, he is not directly named in the cap table of the S-1 filing.



Now:: Mr. Parker has since amassed a number of titles, including managing partner at Founders Fund along with early Facebook investor Peter Thiel (whom Mr. Parker once accused of playing "dirty tricks"). Presently, he also serves as founder and chairman of Facebook Causes, board member and investor at Spotify, and founder and chairman of Airtime, a stealth project with fellow Napster alum Shawn Fanning. He sits on the board of directors of Yammer, the business-minded social network, where Facebooker Chamath Palihapitiya invested both personally and through his new fund. He's also an advisor to Dustin Moskovitz's startup, Asana.



Mr. Parker joined Twitter last October, with an apology to his former protegee/employer, tweeting out, "Sorry Zuck, I had to do it eventually." His last update, however, might make up for it. Days before Facebook's S-1, Mr. Parker retweeted portentous words from Fortune.com's Dan Primack: "Facebook mafia is coming."



(Photo: Wikimedia)

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