Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper stuns his India team as Bengaluru traffic snarl looks ‘beautiful’

Tim Draper stunned his Indian squad when he said the Bengaluru traffic snarl was "beautiful".

The legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist is in India for the latest season of his startup pitching show 'Meet The Drapers'. “God, I love this country. The people are fantastic here. So nice to everybody and so accommodating. And I kind of like the traffic,” the founder and managing partner of Draper Associates told Moneycontrol.

“Somebody said welcome to Bangalore. And I said, the traffic here is beautiful…People are moving in and out of traffic. Those lines in the middle, they're like guidelines. They are just art on the road. They're all so colourful. And whether they're riding a little tuk-tuk or whatever. They're all figuring out how to weave in and out and they all accommodate for each other. It's a wonderful culture here,” he said.

Draper is invested in some of the biggest tech upstarts like Baidu, Tesla, SpaceX, Coinbase, Skype, Robinhood and Hotmail. The veteran early stage investor is visiting six cities. including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Odisha, Goa and Hyderabad, on his current India trip to scout for innovative early stage startups in collaboration with TiE Mumbai.