I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

He won the Virginia state computer science fair for developing a Web crawler and was recruited by the C. Philanthropy
Parker is an active philanthropist and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer research anti-malaria groups charity: water and marijuana legalization. Parker also hosts The TechFellow Awards a partnership between TechCrunch and The Founders Fund that annually gives 20 entrepreneurs $100000 each to invest in startups.

1 billion. As of March 2012 Parker's net worth was estimated to be $2.