Tim Draper

Tim Draper appears in Eric Migicovsky on Pebble, Kickstarter, and Building for Yourself as one of the investors Eric Migicovsky raised from after Y Combinator Demo Day. In the episode, this funding belongs to the early Alerta and [[ImpulseWatch|Impulse]] period before Pebble’s Kickstarter breakout.

The source uses the financing as a caution rather than a victory lap. Eric says the money contributed to bad decisions, including ordering one to two thousand early watches from a contract manufacturer before demand and platform durability were proven.

Connections

• Eric Migicovsky, Alerta, [[ImpulseWatch|Impulse]], and Pebble - founder and company context.
• Y Combinator, Paul Buchheit, and Yuri Milner - surrounding early funding context.
• Hardware Inventory Risk and Consumer Hardware Startup Risk - concepts connected to the premature hardware order.