Tim Draper ✓

@TimDraper · Menlo Park, CA · joined 15 Feb 2009

Backing the bold ideas that shape the future. Founder of @DFJvc, @drapervc, @Draper_U, @meetthedrapers. Pitch me: timdraper@draper.vc

520 479Followers

2 374Following

3 441Posts total

2.3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	46 706	22 338	2.09×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.97%	6.70%	1.34×
Engagement rate	0.39%	1.18%	0.33×

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Latest posts

When you go off the main path and do something else, then apply it back to the main path… the path gets more extraordinary. I started @draper_u just to help entrepreneurs get started. Now it's a major pre-accelerator, a great source of deal flow, a powerful network connector 15.3K views · 131 likes · 14 reposts · 15 replies 02 Sep 2026 People ask where my optimism comes from. When I was younger, I played football. I joined five benchwarmers in a challenge against the 6 best athletes on the team. So...it seemed hopeless. So we changed the game. We ran routes they weren’t expecting. We lined up in ways that 62.9K views · 233 likes · 21 reposts · 28 replies 01 Sep 2026 I am selling my island in Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania. Gorgeous place, but we don’t use it enough. $7.9 million or best offer. Anyone interested should contact me directly at tim@draper.vc 2.1M views · 5.9K likes · 867 reposts · 986 replies 28 Aug 2026 Five years ago, the @RadiantNuclear team was pitching portable nuclear reactors. Today the US Army handed them a $750 million contract for 15 of them. We and @BoostVC were early investors and co-led their Series D recently. The founders made our decision to invest easy. They ht 46.7K views · 69 likes · 7 reposts · 3 replies 28 Aug 2026 Independent Institute (@IndependentInst) just launched their 4th season of the hit dark comedy, “Love Gov 4”. Gov is a character that keeps offering to help and protect the citizen, but really only wants to control her. Sound familiar? Watch it for a dark laugh. Here is its 33.7K views · 15 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 28 Aug 2026

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