Troublesome Sean Parker, the Valley's "founder-friendly" investor, has really wound up the old lions of Silicon Valley. First, Sequoia's legendary Mike Moritz puts the newcomer at the head of the "get-rich-quick crowd", of entrepreneurs who put their interests ahead of investors. The latest splutter? From Ron Conway, in an interview with All Things Digital. The angel investor, who scored on Google, slams the "third-tier VCs" who win deals by offering "payoffs" to founders. Parker, the decade's bad boy, has committed many heinous acts in his short business career: turning up late and dishevelled to meetings after a night partying, getting entangled in a "misunderstanding" involving cocaine, provoking the music industry to shut down Napster. He could have been forgiven all that; but you don't mess with the holy writ of Silicon Valley, which is that the investors always get their money out first. After the jump, Conway's video interview.
