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Avery Hartmans. Sean Parker got his start as a teenage hacker before cofounding Napster in He joined Facebook in its early days, becoming the founding president of the site at Now, the year-old billionaire funds philanthropic causes and donates to political candidates.

See more stories on Insider's business page. When he was in second grade, his dad taught him how to program on an Atari computer.

By the time Parker was a teenager, he was able to hack into universities and companies. He once hacked into a Fortune company, but his dad confiscated his keyboard before he could log out.

Parker cofounded the file-sharing service Napster in , when he was only 19 years old. Napster became one of the fastest-growing businesses of all time, as well as one of the most controversial. Parker and his cofounder, Shawn Fanning, are often credited with revolutionizing the music industry.

After several lawsuits from music associations eventually shut down Napster, Parker went on to found a social-networking site called Plaxo. He was ousted two years later. Plaxo shut down in