Tim Draper

They spread to 36 cities around the world.

And each of them, there's one called Draper Nexus, one called Draper Dragon.

Nexus is in Japan and Dragon's in China, Draper Vena Capital in Vietnam, and Draper Esprit in London.

Draper Triangle in Pittsburgh, and they all have raised funds of varying sizes too.

And then Draper Associates has its fund, and then Draper Fisher-Jervison has its fund.

So it's hard to sort of picture a, you know, when you ask how big are your funds.

To add them all up.

Yeah, you'd have to do something different.

Well, it was fun.

It was a risk.

We suspected that it would be good for marketing for Draper University.

We also felt that we were doing such unusual and interesting things at Draper University that the rest of the education establishment would benefit from watching what we're doing with students.

Um, and so there were lots of reasons to do it.

There are a few not to do it, but we, we ended up, uh, deciding to do it.

We worked with ABC family.

They were, um, they were great to work with.

Uh, and we really enjoyed the experience and it was, uh, and it did not, um,

Interestingly, didn't take an inordinate amount of my time.

Well, what I wanted them to come around to was that some of them came up with rules that made it a better game.

And what we're always trying to do is either if we're transforming industries, that's the ultimate goal.