Tim Draper's jet lands in San Jose after fund launch and Bitcoin conference circuit

Tim Draper's Gulfstream G550 (N550DA) was tracked departing Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport in Hawaii at 21:19 UTC on June 29, landing at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport four and a half hours later. The aircraft, which had arrived in Hawaii from Wisconsin just four days earlier, returned to Draper's home base in the early hours of June 30.

If Draper was aboard, the timing would place him back in Silicon Valley the same week his firm Draper Associates publicly announced the launch of Fund 8, its latest venture vehicle, per the firm's newsroom [draper.vc](https://www.draper.vc/newsroom/draper-associates-launches-fund-8). The fund's strategy—backing iconoclastic founders using deep technology—aligns with Draper's well-known bets on SpaceX, Tesla, and Bitcoin. Draper also made headlines in mid-June with fresh Bitcoin commentary, arguing that quantum computers will crack banks before they touch the blockchain [news.bitcoin.com](https://news.bitcoin.com/tim-draper-says-quantum-will-crack-banks-before-bitcoin/), and calling for a 'third crypto act' to let U.S. businesses operate entirely on Bitcoin [coinremark.com](https://coinremark.com/tim-draper-proposes-third-crypto-act-to-enable-us-businesses-operate-fully-on-bitcoin/).

This return to San Jose caps a week that also saw Draper speaking at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, where he told attendees they 'should be scared if you don't own bitcoin' [bitcoinmagazine.com](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/billionaire-tim-draper-scared-bitcoin). The brief Hawaiian detour—between Wisconsin and California—may have been a pause in an otherwise relentless schedule. Whether or not he was on the flight, the aircraft's movements track the peripatetic rhythm of a venture capitalist whose portfolio and pronouncements keep him crossing time zones.