On the Record: Tim Draper

By: cornwall [privmsg - website] On 13th Mar 2005 In
- Business Issues

Interview in San Francisco Chronicle with venture capitalist Tim Draper, who's best known for starting one of Sand Hill Road's most successful firms -- Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

He has funded Hotmail, Skype, NetZero, FogDog.com - and missed out on Yahoo (outbid) & Google (Sergy never convinced his partners). And the inview gives background to these investments.

And he is certainly creative in getting companies to invest in.

Quote:

We put a blog up and it said, "Pitch Tim Draper on your billion-dollar idea."

We had some great fun with it. We picked 11 ideas, and we invited them all to pitch me from video teleconferencing. It worked unbelievably well. We actually ended up funding one called InterCell.

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