Tim Draper - Bitcoin, Blockchain, Tesla, Elon Musk and many more topics
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Tim Draper is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Draper Associates, DFJ, and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. The firms’ investments include Baidu, Focus Media, YeePay, KongZhong, Skype, Hotmail, Tesla, SolarCity, Coinbase, Ledger, Robinhood, Athenahealth, Box, TwitchTV, SpaceX, Cruise Automation, Carta, Planet, PTC, and many others.
In his mission to promote entrepreneurship, Tim created Draper University of Heroes, a residential and online school based in San Mateo, California, to help extraordinary people accomplish their life missions. School alumni have gone on to build 350 companies including crypto leaders, QTUM, Spacecash, DataWallet, and Credo. He also started Innovate Your State, a non-profit dedicated to crowdsource innovation in government; and BizWorld, a non-profit that teaches young children how business and entrepreneurship work.
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Amy Cosper is former vice president and editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Media Inc. Previously, she served as WiesnerMedia's entrepreneur in residence, where she sought out and evaluated new business plans, ventures and partnerships to assist in diversifying the company's portfolio. Cosper first entered the entrepreneurial trenches with her own media consulting business. Her journalism roots, however, began in the tech world, as a reporter on assignment in several countries across the globe, from Israel to France to Brazil. Cosper later became publisher and editor-in-chief for Satellite Broadband magazine at Primedia, and then went on to redesign and direct five ASBPE award-winning financial magazines at WiesnerMedia.
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