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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DFJ Managing Director Tim Draper relates his first forays as an investor in China, including how early opportunity recognition led his firm to a series of successful deals.