Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Timothy C. Draper

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Timothy C. Draper.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Timothy Cook Draper is an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates and Draper Goren Holm. His most prominent investments include Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Ring, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, Ancestry.com, Twitch, Cruise Automation, and Focus Media. In July 2014, Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Service auction of seized bitcoins from the Silk Road website. Draper is a proponent of Bitcoin and decentralization. Draper was also one of the first investors in Theranos.

American - Businessman | Born: June 11, 1958

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Government is the only industry in which we don't have a choice. If you live somewhere, you belong to that government. So we get bad service for high prices. This doesn't have to be.

Timothy C. Draper

Free markets are amazing.

Timothy C. Draper

You're best off when you're part of the centre of the creative universe.

Timothy C. Draper

I came up with Hotmail's viral marketing idea.

Timothy C. Draper

Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy.

Timothy C. Draper

SpaceX has reopened the cosmos, and the space race is back on, only this time it is in the private sector.

Timothy C. Draper

For me, travel happens when I see an interesting opportunity happening.

Timothy C. Draper

Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.

Timothy C. Draper

I grew up in the Silicon Valley when it was a bunch of apricot groves, and now it's this center of incredible activity. So I have this sense of what technology has done for this region, and I want to spread it to the world.

Timothy C. Draper

We need choices of government, just like we have choices of tables or chairs or cell phones or coffee.

Timothy C. Draper

The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn't cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn't cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world.

Timothy C. Draper

If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!

Timothy C. Draper

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Timothy C. Draper

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Timothy C. Draper

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