Timothy C. Draper
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| Born |
Timothy Cook Draper June 11, 1958 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Stanford University |
| Occupation | Founder and Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) |
| Net worth | US$1 billion (2017) |
| Spouse(s) | Melissa Lee (Parker) Draper |
| Children | Billy Draper, Adam Draper, Eleanor Draper, and Jesse Draper |
| Parent(s) | William Henry Draper III and Phyllis (Culbertson) Draper |
| Relatives | Polly Draper (Sister) |
| Website | Profile at Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
Timothy Cook "Tim" Draper (born June 11, 1958) is an American venture capital investor, and 1985 founder of the firm that would become Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). Draper is also the founder of Draper Associates and Draper University. In July 2014, Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Service auction of seized bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace website.
Draper is the third in a line of venture capitalists. He is the son of Phyllis (Culbertson) and William Henry Draper III, who founded the Draper & Johnson Investment Company in 1962 and was chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. His grandfather, William Henry Draper Jr., founded Draper, Gaither and Anderson in 1958.
He has a degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1984.
In 1985, Draper left the bank Alex, Brown & Sons to start his own venture capital firm; former officemate John H.N. Fisher became a partner in 1991, and business student Steve Jurvetson became the third partner in the firm.
Although the history of the term is not fully clear, it is commonly argued that Draper and Jurvetson "invented viral marketing" in 1996, due to their idea of automatically attaching a brief advertising message to the bottom of outgoing Hotmail emails, though the neologism itself is documented as early as a 1989 edition of PC User.
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