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Technology.

What is it all about?

The idea of starting a car company when Delorean had been his spectacular failure and

it cost hundreds of millions of dollars to get one started, the idea that we were going to actually

start a car company was totally ludicrous.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from deep inside the Silicon Valley Future Machine.

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This week, we have a very good one for you.

Tim Draper is with us.

And Tim is one of the most prominent venture capitalists

in Silicon Valley. His firm Draper Fisher Jervitsen backed some of the biggest ever successes

in the industry from Tesla and Hotmail to Skype and loads of others. He also backed Theranos,

the gigantic bloodthening fraud, which we also talk

about. So, and I think what you'll, you'll find his take on that company. Surprising.

Anyhow, he's a very big personality, and his venture capital firm reflects that. So just to give

you a bit of a sense before we get into the interview,

if you were to walk into Draper Fisher's headquarters,

what you would find at the front desk is not a front desk,

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