Tim Draper

Tim Draper

Tim Draper is a venture capital investor and the founder of Draper Associates and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in e-mail to geometrically spread an internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail, Skype, and Yahoo Mail. It has since been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. Draper has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors. He has been ranked 46th on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard alumni and 7th on the Forbes Midas List.