Tim Draper

Part of the Silicon Valley-based Draper family contributing administration, in 1985, he turned into an establishing accomplice of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. This funding firm has made many interests in organizations going from Tesla to the now-old blood-testing organization Theranos.

In 2014, he says, he purchased 29,656 bitcoins seized by the U.S. Marshals from the covered Silk Street bootleg market for $18.7 million (cost: just $632 per coin). “Dollars – the currency of the past,” Draper told Forbes in an email. “Bitcoin is the money of the future. “We are seeing now’s the worldwide anthropological transition from $ to bitcoin. Seeing this, I’ll still be a HODLer and a BUYMOREer.” Draper declined Forbes’ requests for an interview. Assuming Draper has persisted with everything he bought in 2014, his crypto would be worth $1.1 a billion.