Tim Draper

@DraperVC @HeyTPerk @digitalherring heh... I am leaning in because I could feel the heat of the rubber cement on the "Hot Mail" box burning to my left! Dripps of fire on the grass below... no AI or photoshop here....

Real estate builds more American wealth than any other asset class, yet most Americans can't access it. Mogul completely rebuilt this model. mogul CEO Alex Blackwood went on ABC News to talk about it. Typically, you need a down payment. You need a mortgage. You need to fix the water heater at 11pm on a Tuesday. Mogul flipped that math: → Start with $250 → Collect rental income monthly → Watch appreciation in real time → Keep the tax benefits at year end And the team puts a high bar on what they bring to the token buyers. Alex and his co-founder came out of Goldman's real estate private equity group, and fewer than 0.1% of the properties they review get listed. The numbers speak for themselves. The numbers they are posting are averaging 18.8% annual returns. Roughly 10-12% from rent with the rest from appreciation. Home prices keep climbing out of reach and platforms like Mogul are how the next generation gets in the game. Proud to back this team.

Thank you to the @meetthedrapers team for editing and putting this together!

In honor of Elon Musk, on the advent of the SpaceX IPO, I went to Nashville and recorded this version of The Riskmaster with some of the best musicians in the world. It is heartfelt, fun and engaging. Have a listen.

Congrats!! A great milestone for a great company. We first backed @VenusAerospace in 2021 and all they've done since is prove their thesis that rotating detonation rocket engines, theorized for decades in academic papers, could be commercialized to redefine propulsion (with gigantic implications for defense, for space, and eventually, for commercial aviation). In the intervening years, they've built the world's most efficient rocket engine. And they made history last year with the first U.S. flight test of a high-thrust RDRE, a breakthrough engineers had chased for 30+ years. Congratulations the entire team on this fundraise - we at @DraperVC could not be more proud to be your investors!!

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My partner Steve Jurvetson spent his nights and weekends launching rockets. Totally obsessed. So I told him, "Find us the best rocket company." Three weeks later he came back. "The best rocket company is Elon's." My first reaction: "Isn't he supposed to be running Tesla?" We already had a big investment in Tesla, but we heard him out. In that meeting, you could feel it. His mission in life was to make humanity multi-planetary. Tesla was a means to an end. So we became the first money in after Elon's own $100 million and an investment from Founders Fund. Just before we invested, the first few rockets had exploded on the launch pad.. but then a Falcon 1 lifted off and worked. It launched one small satellite for Malaysia, and then it was retired. Falcon 9 was the true workhorse, which good customers came for later over time. Eventually there were contracts everywhere, and Elon Musk began his journey to make us multiplanetary. A mission like "we're going to Mars" attracts the best engineers in the world. People take a new job to solve a problem they'll tell their grandkids about. When Kennedy said we choose to go to the moon, the technologies that came out of that effort changed everything on Earth. Same thing is happening now. Starlink exists because Elon Musk is building to get us to Mars. If the mission is grand enough, innovations that happen along the way will enhance and may even redefine the business. Thanks to Bonnie Blockchain for having me on!

After seeing Steve Jurvetson's resume, I was almost sold, but when I met him, he knocked me over with his intelligence, his bravery and his sense of fun. He had such enthusiasm for ultimate frisbee and mountain biking, I knew he wasn't just an academic. He had a zest for life, adventure and people. One thing people didn't notice on his resume was that he was not only an RJ Miller scholar at GSB, but he won the "nice guy" award as the most popular biz school student among his peers. And the proof is in the pudding. He and Elon built a relationship that got us a couple trinicorns in Tesla and SpaceX.

@LetsGoCure @evanbuhler @TimDraper I had not seen that, and I don't recall. Maybe Tim does. My recollection is that the academics on my resume caught his eye, as he too was a EE from Stanford. So he could appreciate what it took to finish in ~2.5 years with the highest GPA in engineering (A+ avg), then a MSEE

Oh, one possible answer just came to me in a dream. I’m pretty sure this is @TimDraper and @FutureJurvetson. Functionally rivals, “competing” for many of the same deals, but seemingly good friends and collaborators. Deeply respectful to each other. Great model for capitalism tbh.

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Fun @Forbes profile. Covers venture capital risk, SpaceX, Tesla, Freedom. He wasn’t mentioned in my profile, but @FutureJurvetson was the rocket lover inside Draper Fisher Jurvetson who led us into SpaceX. Thank you, Steve! Article here: forbes.com/sites/victorde…

@Andytang @America250 happy birthday USA, best startup!

250 years ago, a bunch of audacious founders dreamed up an untested operating model and scaled it into the most powerful nation on earth. To celebrate, we ran America's Startup Challenge with @America250 and brought the top 10 teams to Silicon Valley for the finals. I was blown away — students building everything from biodegradable seaweed-based fire suppressant to precision cancer therapies. Entrepreneurs like this are why I'm optimistic about America. Their drive and vision are what make this country what it is. Excited to keep working with them at @draper_u ! Here's to 250+ more years 🇺🇸

I wrote more about these amazing students and their missions here on LinkedIn - if anyone is interested! linkedin.com/pulse/america-…

New episode out now with the LEGEND & ICON of VC @TimDraper!!! (First investor in @Bitcoin, @Tesla, @SpaceX) 🤯🐐🚀₿ youtu.be/eC3F_WpUKCU @draper_u @HeroCitySpace @DraperVC @DFJvc #timdraper #bitcoin #vc #draperuniversity #draperassociates

My co-host @adeoressi launched 14 funds, founded 11 startups (~$2B in exits before 30), and built the SAFE note. His VC Lab helped launch 50%+ of all new VC firms recently. This is going to be a good one. Come ask us anything.

On July 9 I'm going live with @adeoressi for @govclab's Venture Trailblazers. Tesla, SpaceX, Coinbase, Robinhood. I backed them early. I'll share what 60+ unicorns taught me about founders, crypto, and AI. Completely free. Come join me and ask me anything you want. RSVP 👉 fi.co/e/400160

For our 10th season, we are celebrating the 250th year of the USA by concentrating the entire Meet the Drapers season on the US. We've already taken Meet the Drapers through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Detroit, Michigan, New York City, New York, Nashville, Tennessee, Austin, Texas, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Honolulu, Hawaii this season. Each stop is better than the one before. Word has gotten out in the US about the show and we are getting more and better contestant entrepreneurs for the show. The next generation of world-changing companies is being discovered, created and vetted through new models like Meet The Drapers. In this Meet The Drapers episode, I got to share the stage with my son Adam Draper (Boost VC), former U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios, and James Walker and the energy was incredible.