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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"I think the world needs more mistakes," says Tim Draper, managing director of DFJ. According to Draper, the current education system too generously rewards perfection and not making mistakes, which runs counter to creating a society full of world-changing entrepreneurs.