
Web maven
Sean Parker is, as flagged on Valleywag earlier this week, joining the Founders Fund, the new entrepreneur-friendly venture capital firm set up by former Paypal founder,
Peter Thiel. The news is out, officially, in
an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. Amusingly, Sean Parker's wonderfully over-the-top character —
hard-partying,
erotic-art-loving,
accident-prone — is reduced to a timid adjective. The Napster and Facebook founder is, says the Chronicle, one of Silicon Valley's more
colorful personalities.