Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the boards of DoAt, Glam, Prosper, and Miartech. Other previous successes at DFJ include: Skype, Overture.com, Baidu, Parametric Technology, Hotmail, PLX Technologies, Digidesign, and hundreds of others.
Draper also recently founded Draper University of Heroes, an immersive boarding school in San Mateo, California for students 18-24 years old, dedicated to encouraging proactive entrepreneurship. Previously, Draper launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. He also serves on the boards of Skype, SocialText, Project Y, MailFrontier and Chroma Graphics.
He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Both parties are better off at the end of a deal, says Founder and a Managing Director of DFJ, Tim Draper. By constantly creating a string of deals, market players create a network of people who will benefit along the supply chain. Do deals to help build the economy, says Draper, and you can build richness and variety in your portfolio. Even when deals fail, if you persevere the final sum, it will have a positive ripple effect.