{"id":124420,"date":"2021-06-29T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/billionaire-bitcoin-investor-tim-draper-1-question-he-always-asks-before-investing-and-why-he-sometimes-gets-3-hours-of-sleep"},"modified":"2021-06-29T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:22:32","slug":"billionaire-bitcoin-investor-tim-draper-1-question-he-always-asks-before-investing-and-why-he-sometimes-gets-3-hours-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/billionaire-bitcoin-investor-tim-draper-1-question-he-always-asks-before-investing-and-why-he-sometimes-gets-3-hours-of-sleep","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire bitcoin investor Tim Draper: 1 question he always asks before investing\u2014and why he sometimes gets \u20183 hours of sleep\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billionaire-bitcoin-investor-tim-draper-1-question-he-always-asks-before-investing-and-why-he-sometimes-gets-3-hours-of-sleep.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m at <a href=\"mailto:tim@draper.vc\">tim@draper.vc<\/a>,\u201d he tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/make-it\/\">CNBC Make It.<\/a> He gives it out to everyone because he likes helping people and it keeps him on top of his game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI end up learning things that I never imagined I\u2019d want to know,\u201d Draper says.<\/p>\n<p>Draper is a legend in the world of venture capital. Since the mid-1980s, he has built a fortune making early investments in companies like Hotmail, Skype, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/9888-HK\" target=\"_blank\">Baidu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/08\/20\/how-much-a-1000-dollar-investment-in-tesla-9-years-ago-would-be-worth.html\">Tesla<\/a> and SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m at tim@draper.vc,\u201d he tells CNBC Make It. He gives it out to everyone because he likes helping people and it keeps him on top of his game. \u201cI end up learning things that I never imagined I\u2019d want to know,\u201d Draper says. Draper is a legend in the world of venture capital. Since the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,45,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-finance","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}