Tim Draper Net Worth

Venture capitalist Tim Draper doesn’t discuss his wealth But his net worth is estimated to be slightly over $1 billion as of 2015. Where’s all this money coming from? Draper founded his own company Draper Fisher Jurvetson and also has or had shares of other businesses like Skype, DivX, and Baidu.

Timothy C. Draper was born June 11, 1958 in San Francisco, California into a very wealthy family. His father is William Henry Draper III, co-founder of Draper & Johnson Investment Company. His father was one of early investors in Skype and Tim continued in financial backing of this promising high-tech startup. They owned 10% of Skype’s shares in the time it was sold to eBay in multi-billion deal.

He has college degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and also MBA degree from Harvard Business School. Draper was involved in many IT deals and is known as one of the important venture investors in this area. He was also involved in anauction of seized bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace.

He married his long-term girlfriend Melissa Lee Parker. They have four kids together. Two sons, Billy and Adam. And two daughters, Eleanor and Jesse. Jesse Draper became quite a famous actress. In 2013, Tim started his own educational program called Draper University of Heroes. It focuses on entrepreneurship classes