Tim Draper

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Timothy Cook Draper

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East Chicago, Indiana, U.S.[1]
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EducationStanford University (BS)
Harvard University (MBA)
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Children4, including Jesse Draper
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RelativesWilliam Henry Draper Jr. (grandfather)
William Henry Draper III (father)
Polly Draper (sister)
Nat Wolff (nephew)
Alex Wolff (nephew)
WebsiteOfficial website

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Timothy Cook Draper (born June 11, 1958) is an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ),[3] Draper University, Draper Venture Network, and Draper Associates.[4] Since 2019, he is a partner in Draper Goren Holm.[5][6] His most prominent investments include Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Ring, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, Ancestry.com, Twitch, Cruise Automation, PrettyLitter and Focus Media. In July 2014, Draper received wide coverage[7] for his purchase at a US Marshals Service auction of seized bitcoins from the Silk Road website. Draper is a proponent of bitcoin and decentralization. Draper was one of the first investors in Theranos.[8]

Early life and education

Draper is the third in a familial line of venture capitalists and government officials. He is the son of Phyllis (Culbertson) and William Henry Draper III and the younger brother of actress Polly Draper. His father is the founder of Draper & Johnson Investment Company and former chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. His grandfather, William Henry Draper Jr., founded Draper, Gaither and Anderson in 1958 and served as the first ambassador to NATO.[3]

Draper attended Phillips Academy Andover before matriculating to Stanford University, where he graduated with a BS in electrical engineering in 1980.[9] He later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1984.[3]

While at Stanford, Draper interned at Hewlett-Packard as a marketing engineer. Draper made national headlines as a student when he created the campus board game "Stanford - The Game" alongside Heidi Roizen, who was a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business at the time.[10]

Investment career

Early business career

In 1985, Draper left the investment bank Alex. Brown & Sons to start his own venture capital firm. Former colleague John H.N. Fisher became a partner in 1991, and business student Steve Jurvetson became the third partner in the firm in 1994.[11]

Hotmail and viral marketing

Draper invested in Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia, who presented him with their company, Hotmail. While numerous publications intimate that he "invented viral marketing" in 1996, this major acclaim was his early support for the founders, due to his idea of automatically attaching a brief advertising message to the bottom of outgoing Hotmail emails.[12] Draper and Jurvetson then coined the term "viral marketing", though the neologism itself is documented as early as a 1989 edition of PC User.[13]

Baidu

Draper was the first Silicon Valley venture capitalist to invest in China through the global fund DFJ ePlanet.[14][<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">clarification needed] In 2001, Draper negotiated with CEO Robin Li of Baidu to buy 28% of the company on behalf of ePlanet for US$9 million (~$Format price error: cannot parse value "Error when using Template:Tl: |index=US-GDP (parameter 1) not a recognized index." in 2024).[15]

Skype

Draper's father, Bill Draper, was an early investor in Skype, and DFJ backed Skype in 2004.[16][17] The company owned 10% of Skype in 2005 when it was sold to eBay for US$4.1 billion (~$Format price error: cannot parse value "Error when using Template:Tl: |index=US-GDP (parameter 1) not a recognized index." in 2024).[18] Draper and Niklas Zennström appeared in the first Skype video together in 2007 at Stanford University.[19]

Tesla

In 2006, Draper through DFJ was an investor in the Series C venture round of Tesla.[20] In 2007, Draper again invested in Tesla's Series D venture round through Draper Associates.[21]

Bitcoin

On June 27, 2014, Draper paid about US$19 million (~$Format price error: cannot parse value "Error when using Template:Tl: |index=US-GDP (parameter 1) not a recognized index." in 2024) for nearly 30,000 bitcoins which had been seized from the Silk Road by the US Marshals service and auctioned to the public.[22][23][24]

On September 23, 2014, Draper told Fox Business that he predicted that one bitcoin would reach $10,000 "in three years";[25] on January 27, 2015, Draper wagered about $400,000 (which is 2000 bitcoins with $200 price) that the bitcoin will rebound from a recent plunge.[26] The price of a bitcoin crossed $10,000 (~$Format price error: cannot parse value "Error when using Template:Tl: |index=US-GDP (parameter 1) not a recognized index." in 2024) on November 29, 2017.[27]

On April 21, 2018, Draper predicted during an Intelligence Squared debate that "In five years you are going to try to go buy coffee with fiat currency and they are going to laugh at you because you're not using crypto."[28]

In December 2019, he predicted that bitcoin would reach US$250,000 by the end of 2022.[29]

Cruise Automation and Twitch

After funding Twitch, which was sold to Amazon for $1 billion,[30] Kyle Vogt, a founder of Twitch, took Draper for a ride in the Cruise Automation self-driving car. After nearly crashing, Draper funded Cruise. Cruise went on to be sold to General Motors for $1 billion as well.[31][32]

Theranos

Draper was one of the first investors in the blood testing startup Theranos, whose founder Elizabeth Holmes was later charged by the SEC with committing massive fraud.[33] In 2018, after the SEC had already charged Holmes, Draper continued to defend her, saying that she had been "bullied into submission".[34]

Other investments

Draper's other investments include Robinhood (company), Coinbase, eShares, Tezos, DefiMoneyMarket, and OpenGov. His investments are centered around companies who use artificial intelligence, bitcoin, blockchain, smart contracts, and computational genomics to apply to industries like finance, health care, and government.[35][36][37][38]

Educational program

In 2013, Draper launched Draper University of Heroes, an educational program that offers a crash course in entrepreneurship. The university's residential program is based in San Mateo, California, and the curricula are designed by Draper.[39]

Personal life

Draper played several sports from a young age, including tennis, baseball and basketball.[40]

Three of Draper's children also have venture funds. Adam Draper is the managing director of Boost VC. Jesse Draper is the managing director of Halogen VC, and Billy Draper is the managing director of Path Ventures.[citation needed]

Politics

Draper has spoken out for free markets and entrepreneurship globally, and against Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, stating that they limit the viability of taking companies public.[41]

In 2000, Draper spent $20 million (~$Format price error: cannot parse value "Error when using Template:Tl: |index=US-GDP (parameter 1) not a recognized index." in 2024) on a failed measure to support school vouchers.[42]

Split California Proposal

In early 2014, Draper filed a petition which was accepted by California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen to begin collecting signatures to divide California into six smaller states, arguing that California is "increasingly ungovernable" as one state.[43] However, on September 12, 2014, it was announced the plan fell short of the required number of valid signatures to land it on the 2016 ballot.[44]

In April 2018 Draper announced collection of "about 600,000" signatures for a new petition to divide California, this time into three new states.[45] In June 2018, the petition collected a sufficient number of signatures to qualify as an initiative in the 2018 general election.[46] On July 18, 2018, the day before ballots were sent to print, the California Supreme Court blocked the measure from appearing on the November 2018 ballot.[47]

2024 Presidential Election Endorsements

Draper stated that he met with—and donated to—both presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in "roughly equal amounts." He also stated that he was "endorsing both candidates."[48][49]

Bibliography

See also

References

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