Building a billion-dollar business isn’t a 9-to-5 job. It’s about how you think, decide, and execute, even when nobody’s watching. The real secret? Consistency beats intensity.
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I'm excited to speak at @AIBC_World Rome! 🇮🇹
🗓 Nov 2-5th
I'll be hosting a fireside chat with @litecoin creator @SatoshiLite, and filmimg Season 4 of the Crypto Megan Podcast on @StreamDraperTV 🎙️
@TimDraper himself will also taking the stage 🔥
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GUESS WHO...
For America's 250th anniversary, @RosieRios and @TimDraper are bringing you something special: a spotlight on America's Startup, the national competition finding the boldest student founders in the country.
Apply before October 8, 2026 📆https://t.co/dV4LDTCkai
GUESS WHO...
For America's 250th anniversary, @RosieRios and @TimDraper are bringing you something special: a spotlight on America's Startup, the national competition finding the boldest student founders in the country.
Apply before October 8, 2026 📆https://t.co/dV4LDTCkai
For 250 years, America's story has been driven by people who took a risk on their own ideas. That's what entrepreneurship is: freedom and trust in action. As a member of the Investor Council for America's Startup (@America250) I want to see that same spirit from the next generation.
If you're an undergraduate student (or equivalent) at an accredited university, college, or trade school with an idea you're ready to build, this is your moment. Compete for a share of more than $1 million in cash and prizes, and get your idea in front of me and other leading names in tech and business.
1️⃣ Visit the America's Startup website at https://t.co/vUqDdwznQa
2️⃣ Review the contest rules and confirm your eligibility
3️⃣ Grab your co-founder and submit your application by October 8
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The next 250 years of American innovation start with someone in a dorm room right now.
For America's 250th anniversary, Rosie Rios and Tim Draper are bringing you something special: a spotlight on America's Startup, the national competition finding the boldest student founders in the country.
Undergrads. Big ideas. One shot at the national stage.
Apply before October 8, 2026 📆
Application: https://t.co/FyPcXA8GNX
🇺🇸 Calling all student founders America's Startup is looking for the next big idea in American innovation.
Apply by Oct 8, 2026: https://t.co/dV4LDTCkai
Innovation can get people interested, trust is what gets them to stay.
Crypto has spent years proving what the technology can do.
The bigger challenge now is proving that people, businesses and institutions can confidently rely on it.
That means more than better products. It means transparency, accountability, consistency — and giving people a reason to believe in the systems they’re using.
Because mass adoption won’t happen simply because the technology gets better.
It happens when trust catches up.
Featuring @megan_crypto & @char6_0
We recently published an article on how we’re building our own internal AI infrastructure for VC here at Draper. Custom workflows to help our team gather information faster, so they can get back to the true human work in VC: meeting with and being present with founders.
In 1985, I built my deal flow by knocking on the doors of the ten or so venture capitalists that existed and asking them to send me the deals they were declining. I needed to build knowledge so I could build judgment.
Forty years later, the team at Draper Associates built something I could only have dreamed of back then:
-One centralized database that holds a singular record per company that has all our internal data as well as enriched data from outside verified sources like Harmonic
-A machine learning model, trained on 40+ years of successes and passes, that reads the hundreds of deals we get every week and surfaces the best fits directly to the investment team
-A brief on every meeting before we walk in
-Warm intros drafted from a network of 15,000+ contacts
-Answers to any question from our own records in plain English across 400+ portfolio companies (and an extra info assist from our Harmonic API)
The AI/ML infrastructure handles the routine work, but judgment remains human: sitting across from a founder, recognizing a missionary, making the call while the idea still sounds crazy.
Now there are more hours for exactly that.
Read more about how we built this system, philosophically and practically: https://t.co/xvk6K6fcaM
With heavy hearts, we share the passing of Bill Draper — venture capital pioneer, public servant, and beloved patriarch of the Draper family. His legacy of building, mentoring, and giving back will live on for generations. Our thoughts are with the entire Draper family.