Sean Parker Defends His Wedding

Economically speaking I came out on top. I have been one of the greatest individual beneficiaries of this seismic shift in media. I have made, quite literally, “a billion dollars,” which, as I’m constantly reminded by the media, is “cool.” But I’m the first to admit that this shift away from a centralized, top-down media towards a decentralized bottom-up media, did not come without a cost. At some point in time everyone, whether they engage actively with these new mediums or not, will experience a violation of their privacy, will find their reputation besmirched publicly, and may even find their sanity challenged by some combination of these factors.

Sean Parker had an expensive wedding in a redwood grove and didn’t like the media backlash that followed, so he wrote 9,000 words defending himself and gave it to TechCrunch. He could have simply said: “My wife and I had the wedding we wanted. We worked with a conservation group who helped us get it as right as possible. End of story.” Instead he sounds … probably how he didn’t want to sound.

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