{"id":629958,"date":"2026-07-16T01:35:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=831334"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:35:40","slug":"tim-draper-admits-ouch-moment-after-passing-on-coinbase-his-son-saw-a-crypto-fortune-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/tim-draper-admits-ouch-moment-after-passing-on-coinbase-his-son-saw-a-crypto-fortune-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Draper Admits \u2018Ouch\u2019 Moment After Passing on Coinbase \u2014 His Son Saw a Crypto Fortune in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/tim-draper-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tim Draper Admits &#039;Ouch&#039; Moment After Passing on Coinbase \u2014 His Son Saw a Crypto Fortune in the Making\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Tim Draper says he passed on Coinbase after underestimating how quickly retail crypto adoption would arrive, but his son invested early and helped turn a rejected opportunity into one of the venture capitalist\u2019s biggest wins. Tim Draper Saw Coinbase\u2019s Potential \u2014 But Misjudged When Crypto Would Arrive Tim Draper, the veteran venture capitalist behind Draper [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Draper says he passed on Coinbase after underestimating how quickly retail crypto adoption would arrive, but his son invested early and helped turn a rejected opportunity into one of the venture capitalist\u2019s biggest wins. Tim Draper Saw Coinbase\u2019s Potential \u2014 But Misjudged When Crypto Would Arrive Tim Draper, the veteran venture capitalist behind Draper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}