So here's why we're fans of hard-partying wunderkind Sean Parker. (Or at least we were before his latest attempt to clean up.) Most internet execs will force themselves to sit through pointless business development meetings. Parker — the 27-year-old web maven who spotted viral sensations Napster and Facebook and recently joined Peter Thiel's venture capital fund — doesn't have the patience, Particularly after a big night out, according to this account.

When Sean was at Facebook, a friend of mine who worked for AllPosters.com in biz dev had a meeting scheduled with Sean one late Friday afternoon. She had been hoping to cut a deal through which Facebook would promote posters to the company's college audience, which collectively has a lot of blank walls to fill.

This friend showed up with her boss for the meeting, and Parker was nowhere to be found. The receptionist said Parker hadn't been there all day, she didn't know where he was, and didn't know how to reach him, and suggested they wait. So wait they did — for nearly an hour, at which point a bedraggled looking Parker showed up wearing sunglasses and looking unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed.

Undaunted, they began the meeting, hoping to close the deal that day. Barely a few minutes into the meeting, Parker interrupted the AllPosters exec's presentation and said he couldn't concentrate, volunteering that the reason he couldn't concentrate was that he'd just woken up — he said he'd been up all night partying with some "friends" he had met out at a club. He then proudly took out his camera phone, called up some pictures of he and a friend in various states of undress with tawdry-looking topless girls, and asked "what do you think — pretty hot, huh?" as he slid the phone across the table to them.