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Tim Draper, Founder & Managing Partner, Draper Associates
Tim Draper is a top global venture capitalist, having founded Draper Associates, DFJ and the Draper Venture Network. The firms’ investments include Coinbase, Robinhood, TwitchTV, Skype, Tesla, Baidu, Focus Media, YeePay, Hotmail, SolarCity, Athenahealth, Box, SpaceX, and many others.
He is a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICOs and cryptocurrencies, having led investments in the companies that would issue two of the largest ICO’s: Tezos and Bancor. He created viral marketing, instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and Skype and other applications, particularly effective for mail and communications applications. He is regularly featured on all major networks as a proponent for entrepreneurship, innovative governance, free markets and Bitcoin, and has received various awards and honors including the World Entrepreneurship Forum’s “Entrepreneur of the World,” and is listed as one of the top 100 most powerful people in finance by Worth Magazine, the top 20 most influential people in Crypto by CryptoWeekly, #1 most networked VC by AlwaysOn, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, and #48 most influential Harvard Alum.
In promoting entrepreneurship, he created Draper University of Heroes, to help extraordinary people accomplish their life missions. He authored a popular entrepreneur’s textbook called, “How to be The Startup Hero” and created a crowdsourced TV series with Sony Network called “Meet The Drapers,” where viewers can invest in participants. ABC Family created another show, “StartupU,” around the activity and students of Draper University. He started Innovate Your State, a non-profit dedicated to crowdsource innovation in government, and BizWorld, a non-profit that teaches young children how business and entrepreneurship work. He has served on the California State Board of Education and received the “Toqueville” Award for freedom from the Independent Institute.
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