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Tim Draper: Bitcoin and blockchain will disrupt venture capital like Uber

Tim Draper · 20VC: Tim Draper on Investing In Tesla, The Best Pitch He Has Ever Seen & The Evolution of Venture and Startups · Feb 22, 2016 · at 5:45

Venture capitalist Tim Draper (Draper Associates) discusses how emerging financial technologies and crowdfunding will radically transform traditional venture capital.

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“All of these things, Bitcoin, the blockchain, there are going to be new technologies applied to venture capital just the way file sharing was applied to the music industry, or Uber was applied to the taxi industry. I think venture capital is going to be changed in a big way, and I'm excited about it.”

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