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SEAN PARKER, a well-known Internet entrepreneur, is a managing partner of the Founders Fund, a venture capital fund in San Francisco. He was the cofounder of Napster; a cofounder of Plaxo, a contact management application company; and the Founding President of Facebook. Parker also recently led the move to launch Facebook Causes, a new developer application that organizes individuals’ charitable giving on Facebook, which has more than 50 million users.