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June 7, 2006

Tim Draper on Changing the World

DFJ's Tim Draper is an unusual venture guy with an unquestionable gut for risk. His presentations aren't everyone's cup of tea, however, with a mishmash of entrepreneurial boosterism, up with Tim-ishness, and self-penned song lyrics. Nevertheless, there is some intermittently useful stuff in this set of slides from a recent speech he gave at Thunderbird.

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yet more proof positive that those who have become succesful in one field of endeavor should not presume that they can sprinkle their fairy dust on anything else.

competitive government? great idea. we can't help you right now, we're in a flame war with the federal/state govt.

i love his vision of utopia - sweden's social system coupled with internet-level taxation. well this is what the US is trying to implement right now...see the dollar's "dizzying success" for some slight implementation inconveniences.

its okay to laugh AT rich people, and i hope everyone was laughing AT tim draper when he was delivering this drivel.

truly we live in reality-distortion-field times.

What part am I misreading where investing in Tagworld tackles pollution and SugarCRM puts an end to poverty? Will it be Feedburner that gives us world peace?

Cmon Dorrian. As Dick will tell you, Feedburner is going to solve dengue fever. Get it straight.

Okay, some of these slides are a little bit out there but the viral marketing comparison slide of Skype, Hotmail, ICQ and Kaza is very interesting.



Hi,

Tim visited India some time back & I blogged about him here.
http://rajan.wordpress.com/2005/10/09/change-the-world/

I find him to be very passionate and inspiring despite many thinking that he performs unnecessary antics.