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"Napster co-founder and former Facebook President Sean Parker has resurfaced \u2014 as the CEO of a startup that hopes to prompt more Americans to take part in local politics and government.\nVeteran Venture Capitalist Ron Conway and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff are also investing in the venture, called Brigade, according to Jano Cabrera, worldwide EVP at PR firm Burson-Marsteller. The news was originally reported in Politico. \nParker is investing more than $9 million in Brigade and will be chairman and CEO of the company. Adam Conner, Facebook's first Washington D.C. lobbyist, will be Brigade's VP of politics. Yahoo engineer John Thrall will be the company's VP of engineering, and former LinkedIn SVP David Henke will sit on Brigade's board. \nSee also: Sean Parker Wedding Is Perfect Parable for Silicon Valley Excess\nCabrera told Politico that Brigade hopes to increase political involvement beyond the federal level, and into state and local races. Brigade will vie with another civic engagement startup MindMixer. ElectNext, another competitor, has closed up shop. \nParker, whose net worth is estimated at $2.1 billion, was most recently the CEO of Airtime, a video social network he launched with Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning in 2012. Despite a tremendous amount of media attention, Airtime never got traction and quietly relaunched in February as OKHello."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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