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Timothy C. Draper
Founder and Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Timothy Draper is the founder and a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based email to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and Four11. Previous successes included Parametric Technology, Digidesign, Preview Travel, eFax, Four11, Combinet, and Redgate. Mr. Draper launched the Draper Affiliate Network, a group of regional early-stage venture capital funds, including Zone Ventures in Los Angeles, Draper Atlantic in Reston, VA, Draper Triangle in Pittsburgh, PA, Wasatch Ventures in Salt Lake City, UT, Timberline Ventures in Portland, OR, Polaris Fund in Anchorage, AK, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham in New York.

He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a marketing engineer for Hewlett-Packard, and was assistant to the president of Apollo Computer. He worked in high technology corporate finance at Alex Brown & Sons before founding Draper Associates (now Draper Fisher Jurvetson). As an advocate for entrepreneurs, he has been published in The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, Upside, The Red Herring, and the Congressional Record. Mr. Draper is also the creator of Tim Draper's BizWorld, a course used to train young entrepreneurs. Along with his interest in developing young entrepreneurs, Mr. Draper served on the California State Board of Education and then launched a cyber-initiative on school choice for the California Primary Election in 2000 on November 11, 1998.

Mr. Draper serves on the boards of Chroma Graphics, GoTo.com, Homestead, I-Cube, MacroWeb, meVC.com, PLX Technologies, Tumbleweed Communications), and Upside Media.