{"id":1148,"date":"2005-03-13T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T07:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2005-03-13T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T07:56:35","slug":"tim_draper_on_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Tim Draper on Skype, Telco&#8217;s and the VC Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draper is acknowledged as the inspiration behind the term &#8220;viral marketing&#8221; via his hotmail investment.  Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/03\/13\/BUGQQBND5L1.DTL\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>We often list all the problems in society, and the politicians would make you believe that they&#8217;re going to solve all those problems.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, I&#8217;d say it goes the other way. Businesses solve a lot of the world&#8217;s problems. The next big energy breakthrough will happen through a business.<\/p>\n<p>The next big environmental breakthrough similarly could happen through a business. Medicine has been advanced through business. It turns out that it&#8217;s the businesspeople that tend to be the ones who solve all this stuff. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draper is acknowledged as the inspiration behind the term &#8220;viral marketing&#8221; via his hotmail investment. Interesting interview. We often list all the problems in society, and the politicians would make you believe that they&#8217;re going to solve all those problems. Generally, I&#8217;d say it goes the other way. Businesses solve a lot of the world&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,27,6,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}