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[SVASE] Venture Capital Legend Sings Ode to Entrepreneurs! (video)

Story posted on: June 10, 2008


What a nice surprise! After a long day and inspite of Tim Draper's lively keynote, I thought I'll call it a day and head to the event's cocktail...
But that was before Draper started singing his Ode to entrepreneurs, "Riskmaster", a song he originally wrote and decided to perform on stage!! Can't miss that... seeing one of the legend of the VC landscape - he invested in eBay, Skype, Glam...- literally explode in front of a group of entrepreneurs coming from all over the world... It's so refreshing to see that. It puts a nice human face to one of the most respected VC. Thanks Tim and happy 50th birthday!
So head to the lyrics and the video after the jump.


The lyrics:

Invested all his mattress money
Divorced his Prom Queen hometown honey
Scraping up his alimony
Friends think he’s a little funny

Needs a “world class CEO.”
Just another million or so
Get him to some real cash flow
So tears and sweat can IPO

For 15 years he’s been out gunned
Bankers demanding blood refund
Company’s looking Moribund
Even Draper will not fund!

Chorus:
He is the Riskmaster
Lives fast drives faster
Skates on the edge of disaster
He is the Riskmaster

He’s got a mission
Company vision
An artist’s ambition
Gut intuition
Fearless and free employee
No guarantee for the Corporate escapee

Team fights on against the trend
Had to lay off his best friend
Called a “recession” seems like “depression.”
Chapter seven. Is this the end?


But then a salesman shouts, “We got it!”
The company’s gonna show a profit
To think the papers rang, “quixotic”
The sky has opened astronautic.

Chorus:
He is the Riskmaster
Lives fast drives faster
Skates on the edge of disaster
He is the Riskmaster

He is on top, on top of the world
At last they see it. Vision unfurled!
Cashflow landslide!
Now everybody wants a piece of his hide.
Court wants him tried. Press wants him fried.
Anyone this rich must have lied.

Chorus:
He is the Riskmaster
Lives fast drives faster
Skates on the edge of disaster
He is the Riskmaster




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