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Awards & Recognition
★#7 on Forbes Midas List
★#46 Most Outstanding Harvard Alumni
★#1 Most Networked Venture Capitalist by AlwaysOn
★#98 on Worth Magazine's 100 Most Powerful People in Finance
★Top 100 Venture Capitalist by Forbes
★Top 20 Most Influential People in Crypto by Crypto Weekly
Notable Facts
→Founder of legendary VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) in 1985, investing in Tesla, SpaceX, Baidu, Skype, Hotmail
→Third-generation venture capitalist from prominent family (grandfather founded first Silicon Valley VC firm)
→Purchased 30,000 Bitcoin for $19 million at US Marshals auction in 2014, now worth ~$3.5 billion
→Pioneer of viral marketing concept that drove success of Hotmail and other early internet companies
→Founded Draper University entrepreneurship program in San Mateo, California
→Estimated net worth of $3.27 billion as of 2026
→Has raised $200 million for eighth fund at Draper Associates in 2025
→Harvard MBA, Stanford BS in Electrical Engineering
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