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Tim Draper Defended Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes as 'Terrific' in 2016
“Oh yeah, she's terrific.”
Tim Draper: Bitcoin is more secure than money at Goldman Sachs
“And Bitcoin now is, you know, my Bitcoin is more secure than money at Wells Fargo or Goldman Sachs.”
Tim Draper: Bitcoin and blockchain will disrupt venture capital like Uber
“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 change…”
Tim Draper predicts widespread Bitcoin adoption will occur by 2018
“Yeah, I think the adoption, I thought it would be three years and that was two years ago. It might be another two years because all of these entrepreneurs who have worked very hard to create uses for Bitcoin, those uses are starting to be adopted.”
Tim Draper: I created viral marketing by putting messages in Hotmail
“I created the idea to put a message at the bottom of everybody's email at Hotmail.”
Tim Draper: Aspiring VCs do not need prior entrepreneurial experience
“Some people are become very good venture capitalists just coming straight. I think if you want to be an entrepreneur, you should just go be an entrepreneur. If you want to be a venture capitalist, you should just go be a venture capitalist.”
Tim Draper: We funded Tesla before Elon Musk took over
“And it was actually true of Martin Eberhard when we funded Tesla before Elon Musk came in and refund, refinanced it and took it over.”
Tim Draper: Elon Musk is very thoughtful, unassuming, and nice
“And he's very thoughtful. Unassuming, and one of the nicest guys out there.”
Draper: Traditional schools have become too rigid and stifle experimentation
“Schools have gotten pretty rigid out there. They're telling you what to say, what to do, what to think and they're not letting you explore and experiment and try things”
Elon Musk Funded Struggling Tesla on Condition He Could Run It
“Elon was an investor with us, and on board, and then when the company was in a dire straits, Elon said that he put money in if he could run it.”
Tim Draper: Enormously successful founders share enthusiastic but quiet confidence
“In all the cases of the greatest entrepreneurs, I think it's been enthusiastic, but quiet confidence that I see in the ones that became enormously successful.”
Tim Draper: Bitcoin makes cross-border transfers almost free compared to fiat
“People, people spend 10 to 20% of their money just Moving it across. And if you use Bitcoin, it's almost free.”
Tim Draper: Plug and Play founder Saeed Amidi created the first incubator
“Saeed Amidi, who has, who really put the first incubator together.”
Tim Draper Pushed Hotmail Founders to Add Viral Email Signature
“The idea was to say, PS, I love you. Get your free email at Hotmail. And they thought I was out of my mind. And then they said, okay, okay. After we pounded the table for a long time, they finally said, okay, okay, we'll do it. But no PS, I love you. Just get …”
Tim Draper Refused to Patent the Viral Email Signature to Spur Adoption
“I decided not to patent the idea or anything because I thought, you know, this is such a cool thing. I kind of want the whole world to do it because then communications will spread faster. New products will spread faster. Everything will be better.”
Tim Draper prefers investing in early two-to-three person teams
“I like investing when there are two or three people in the company and they have a really good mission. And that can be before they've gotten any revenue or just after.”
Draper: Skype Cut 100k Audio Users for First Video Call
“The first Skype video call, they cut off a 100,000 simultaneous audio users in order to get the bandwidth for our video to work.”