Tim Draper

We may have been in that round, but I think we were in the first round.

I remember hunting through all the electric car companies and trying to figure out which one that we would back.

And really, it was Martin Eberhard, and he was getting started.

Sometimes we'll see something really interesting that'll just come, somebody will send me an email with a business plan on it.

And sometimes I'll go to a business plan competition at a school, or I'd go to...

I'll go to a conference and I'll run into somebody at a booth.

There are a lot of ways you can find a new opportunity to invest in.

And we find that

Driving deal flow turns out to be as important as anything to our business.

And so I keep a high profile.

That's part of the Draper University and the Startup View show.

Yep.

I think those are really important because then when people say, hey, who do I go to?

I'm starting a business and I need funding.

Then they always go to Draper.

Actually, I met Elon long before Tesla.

And Elon was not the CEO when we funded it.

A guy named Martin Everhart was.

He was the inventor, hobbyist who put this thing together, loved cars and put the whole design and all that together.

Elon came in.