Tim Draper, Famous Venture Capitalist

Biography

Tim Draper is an American Venture Capital investor and founder of Draper Associates and Draper University. Tim is looked at as one of the most successful venture capitalists in the world. 

Draper received his bachelor’s degree from Standard and his MBA from Harvard.

He is known for successful investments in the following companies; Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, AgelList, SolarCity, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, Ancestry.com, and Twitch.

Twitter: @TimDraper

 

Tim Draper Bitcoin Quotes

  • “This is one of the best things to ever happen to us” [source]
  • “If they (US Gov) thought that they were going to try to put the kibosh on Bitcoin, I think they would have just buried these…instead they decided that this was a real value to society” [source]
  • “I think Bitcoin is the future currency” [source]
  • Bitcoin is one of the greatest technological advances that humanity has ever seen and it can make a bigger change in society than any of us ever imagined.” [source]
  • “I think when you go to Starbucks to buy a cup of coffee, and you try to pay with dollars, they will laugh at you because you are not using Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency…It will be like the old lady paying out with pennies.” [source]
  • “Bitcoin will be $250,000 by 2022” [source]

 

 

Involvement with Bitcoin

  • Tim Draper is popular in the Bitcoin space for purchasing 30,000 Bitcoin in July of 2014 after US Marshals seized Bitcoin from the Silk Road. [source]

 

 

Media Sources

  • Bitcoin will be bigger than Tesla, Skype, and Hotmail combined [source]
  • Real Vision: Bitcoin, Silicon Valley, and the future of money [source]
  • Bitcoin is bigger than the internet, iron age, renaissance, industrial revolution [source]
  • Chat with Tim and Adam Draper [source]

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