Tim Draper flies home to San Jose after a Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas

Tim Draper flew from Van Nuys to San Jose on May 17, a 51-minute hop in his Gulfstream G550 that landed at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport just before 4 p.m. local time. The short flight from Southern California comes a day after the end of Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, where Draper was a keynote speaker on Monday, April 27, per the conference's speaker list [2026.b.tc](https://2026.b.tc/speaker/tim-draper---draper-associates).

Draper, a third-generation venture capitalist and early Bitcoin adopter, used the appearance to reiterate his long-running bull case for the cryptocurrency. On April 14, he predicted on Fox Business that Bitcoin would reach $250,000 within 18 months, citing inflationary pressure on the dollar, as covered by Yahoo Finance [finance.yahoo.com](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/tim-draper-accurately-predicted-bitcoin-193102134.html). He has also said Bitcoin will replace the U.S. dollar within a decade, per a CoinDesk interview from May 2025 [coindesk.com](https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-news/2025/05/13/bitcoin-will-replace-us-dollar-in-10-years-says-billionaire-vc-tim-draper).

The flight fits a pattern: Draper's aircraft spent the previous week shuttling between San Jose, San Francisco, and Vancouver, with a stop in Los Angeles on May 15. The return to San Jose—his home base, per the briefing—suggests a routine wrap to a west-coast swing bookended by a crypto conference and a return to the office.