Tim Draper

Labels are cages. They limit how we view people and subconsciously diminish our expectations and perceptions of them. Don’t let others define who/what you are. And don’t define who/what someone ...

Proud to share a major milestone for NATILUS. We’ve led a $28M Series A to help bring blended-wing-body aircraft from vision to reality - joined by strong strategic and institutional partners inclu...

Always honored to be interviewed by CoinDesk, and intrigued to see what my words look like when translated for an international audience. Thanks CoinDesk Japan for sharing my thoughts on the shift...

I’m not a contrarian investor. Contrarian implies that there’s is a dissenting voice. I look for companies that are so exciting and innovative that there is no dissenting voice. When you're inve...

The #bitcoin opportunity is palpable. In it for the long haul. Waaay better and more secure than trusting leaky banks and spending governments.

“Why VC?” “Why now?” Wrong question. The right question? “Why wouldn’t I invest in early stage VC... always?” The best investors invest through every single market cycle. 🐻 🐂 📈 📉 The macro vi...

“AI is going to take all of our jobs” has become a common refrain. What’s far less discussed is why that’s actually a good thing. We have an investment in a company that integrates AI into the le...

I fund rebellions. I back founders who tear up the status quo. Their ideas may sound crazy to you today, but they are inevitably shaping the future. It's like funding a controlled explosion. And...

Fun feature in the History of Bitcoin about the time I bagged 30,000 of the black market BTC at auction. The night before the auction, I decided that I would actually bid over the market price. Th...

Here’s a 2-flag filter that will save you from 90% of bad investments. 🚩 Red Flag No. 1: Too obvious, too easy 100+ competitors. If you can Google up 100 companies doing a similar thing then it’s...

Had a blast on the Smart Humans podcast with Slava Rubin a few months ago. We covered 40 years of venture capital. The hits, the misses, the wild bets that paid off. Here's what I learned from d...

I was on Bloomberg's Open Interest a couple months ago and talked about a movie from the 90s. Since I watched Multiplicity (where Michael Keaton made copies of himself to get more done) I’ve wond...

Most breakthrough technologies challenge the status quo and scare people: People start by ignoring them. Then they argue to try to keep the status quo. → "This is immoral" → "This changes too m...

Paranoid = everyone's out to get you Pro-noid = everyone's out to help you We like entrepreneurs who are pro-noid.

Just wrapped up an incredible conversation with the Divot team about Bitcoin, entrepreneurship, and why California needs to wake up. A couple things we covered: 𝗢𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻: I bought my first bit...

It’s easy to see what could go wrong. It’s much harder to see potential.

If you're investing based on a checklist, you've already lost. The biggest opportunities don't fit in boxes. They can't because they're doing something that's never been done before. There IS no...

Had a fantastic conversation on The Business Method podcast. We covered a lot of ground, from my early investment in Tesla, when no company had succeeded in making a US car company for 50 years, t...

SpaceNews just featured Max Space, and the headline tells you everything... A space station that launches on a single Falcon 9. Everyone else in the commercial space station race needs years and ...

I recently spoke at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Industry Forum These were my major points: • AI and Bitcoin are merging faster than anyone expected. • Bitcoin will create a decentralize...