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- Bill Draper died at his Atherton, California home on Sept. 8, aged 98.
- He co-founded Sutter Hill Ventures and Draper Richards, shaping a multi-hundred-billion-dollar industry.
- Early investments included Activision, Skype, OpenTable, Qume, and Corbin-Farnsworth.
- Colleagues called him “Dr. Yes” because he said “We’re in!” at deals.
- He earned a Harvard MBA and joined Draper, Gaither and Anderson in 1959.
