Adam Draper

Everything Adam Draper said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Adam Draper: Blockchain technology cannot exist without Bitcoin's incentive structure

“And to me, they're completely integrated. Everyone's, they're very integrated and they're very similar. It's one can't exist without the other because the Bitcoin system is the incentivized system to help the ledger stay opera in operation because the ledger i…”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 14:52 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Opinion

Adam Draper: US government regulation actually drives crypto adoption by legitimizing it

“I actually think regulation is good because it legitimizes it. Like, every time the US government makes a new rule about Bitcoin or the blockchain more people get interested in it rather than shy away from it because it feels like it's more and more endorsed b…”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 11:36 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Disclosure

Boost VC Focuses Its Accelerator Investment Program on Blockchain and VR

“We're not, Going global, we're bringing people to the United States in order to train them in specific industries such as blockchain and virtual reality is where our focuses have been.”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 4:30 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated

Adam Draper pitched 3,000 investors to close 35 LPs for $6.6M fund

“I so it took me 12 months to raise my money. So, so from when I opened to raise money to close, it was like no, no, Back in 2013 to november 2220 14, and I closed 6.6 million bucks. I had to, I reached out to probably 3000 investors. I ended up meeting with ab…”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 6:25 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Assertion Supported

Draper: Bitcoin cuts cross-border transfer costs by two-thirds

“Border to border transfer of money. It can be a third the cost and one fifth the time of sending money today with this new technology, which is really, really exciting.”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 12:02 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Draper: Around 200,000 miners power the Bitcoin transactional network

“There's something like 200,000 people who are hooked up to this network who are powering this huge transactional thing.”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 15:14 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Disclosure

Adam Draper: Boost VC portfolio company Joystream merges BitTorrent with Bitcoin

“We have one company in this tribe that's called joy stream run by a solo founder who is trying to merge two technologies that have never been merged before, which is the peer to peer technology of BitTorrent with the peer to peer technology of Bitcoin. So basi…”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 25:43 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Disclosure

Boost VC Has Invested in Approximately 120 Companies Across Six Cohorts

“Since then at boost VC, we've been, we've run Six tribes. We call them tribes. They're three month programs where we provide housing, office space, and we invest in companies, and we've invested in about a 120 companies.”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 3:06 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Assertion Supported

Boost VC invests $10k-$25k across 50 startups per year

“It's an accelerator program. So we do two, two tribes a year, two sessions a year that are three months, they're three months long where we provide housing office space and we invest in the companies and we invest between 10 and 25,000 dollars. To 25 companies…”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 5:22 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Assertion Partly supported

Adam Draper: Boost VC's $6.6M second fund will back roughly 180 companies

“Current funds, so I've raised two funds, and the first one was smaller, but my current fund was about 6.6 million dollars, and that'll invest in about 200 companies, 180 companies.”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 5:47 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

20VC Opinion

Adam Draper: Ender's Game is one of the best books on leadership

“Ender's Game, I think, is one of the best books on leadership, even though it's not technically a leadership book at all.”

Adam Draper Feb 24, 2016 ▶ 24:31 20VC: Investing In The Next Frontiers Of Tech & Harry Potter with Adam Draper, Founder & CEO @ Boost VC

The other half of the tape: Adam Draper's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 2 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Jeff Morris Jr. 3Harry Stebbings 1

Statements about Adam Draper, by other people (1)

20VC Insight

Jeff Morris Jr.: Founders consistently underestimate customer willingness to pay

“You can always charge a little more than you think customers are willing to pay. And I saw Adam Draper mentioned, you can charge four X the amount that you think customers are willing to pay. I think that's probably a little bit high, but I do think we underes…”

Jeff Morris Jr. Nov 19, 2018 ▶ 27:37 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Adam's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Founder & Managing Director, Boost VC	1	11	67% 2/3	full record on 20VC →