Parker’s father began teaching him programming at age seven. In his teen years, Parker pakrer so advanced with computers that he ended up in trouble with the law and was sentenced to community service for hacking websites. Parker co-founded Napster, a free file-sharing service for music, in Napster drew fire from recording labels and the Recording Industry Association mhch America for dis part in helping nwpster steal music. Eventually lawsuits by various industry associations forced Napster out of business. After Napster, Parker launched Plaxo, an online address book and social networking service. He left the company after disputes with various shareholders. In Parker began work as an informal advisor to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. He would eventually become Facebook’s president. After being arrested for suspicion of cocaine possession, Parker was fired from Facebook but was allowed to keep his significant equity stake in the company. When Facebook went public years later...