Speaking Of… Pink with Jesse Draper (TCTV)
TechCrunch : Jan 4, 2012
This week’s guest on Speaking Of is no stranger to the world of television. She’s Jesse Draper, creator and host of online talk show, “The Valley Girl Show.”
Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/speaking-of-pink-with-jesse-draper-tctv/
14 Fascinating Women and 14 Compelling Stories of Fortitude & Creativity
Gentry Magazine : Jan 4, 2012
Few people could get legendary angel investor Ron Conway to do the money dance, venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson to wear a lei, Tesla founder Elon Musk to eat escargot on camera, or coax Webbie Award founder Tiffany Schlain to chat while hula hooping, but Jesse Draper isn’t most people.
On Internet TV, Silicon Valley Displays Its Whimsical Side
The New York Times : Dec 27, 2011
LOS ANGELES — There she was, one of the business world’s most important and serious executives, being interviewed about — leg warmers? Oh, yes. But Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, got what she signed up for — an appearance on “The Valley Girl Show,” an Internet series focused, more or less, on Silicon Valley personalities.
Growth, Totally: “Valley Girl Show” Host No Dummy When It Comes to Distribution Deals
Los Angeles Business Journal : Dec 16, 2011
She might play a ditz on the web, but Jesse Draper is serious when it comes to building a business out of her pink-clad alter-ego. Download .PDF
Read more: http://valleygirl.tv/cms/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Los-Angeles-Business-Journal1.pdf
Branding for me, myself and I
Financial Times : Nov 22, 2011
Jesse Draper towers 6ft 3in in her hot-pink suede high-heeled shoes. She takes a seat in a light-pink armchair, in front of a pink coffee table, and adjusts her hot-pink dress, brushing the brown curls away from her brown eyes, umbrella’d in pink eye shadow. She leans over to the gentleman in a pink armchair across from her, and confirms that he’s won an Emmy and an Oscar.
Read more: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8d53e9c4-0f83-11e1-88cc-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1eNxS9IzU
This ‘Valley Girl’ Entrepreneur Plans World Domination With Her Startup Show
Business Insider : Nov 16, 2011
Jesse Draper is not afraid of the term “Valley Girl.” In fact, the 25-year-old daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper is using the phrase to build a brand.
Valley girl cuts up with tech leaders on Web show
San Francisco Chronicle : Oct 24, 2011
Jesse Draper is no ditz, but she plays one on the Internet.
Filming her Web-based talk program “The Valley Girl Show” on Thursday, she encouraged guest Adam Goldstein, co-founder of travel website Hipmunk, to inhale helium from a balloon so he’d sound like a chipmunk (she joined him), blindfolded him while she blew bubbles at him “for relaxing,” and finished off by having two hamsters (standing in for chipmunks) roam around a map of the United States on the floor of her fluffy pink-and-gold set.
‘Valley Girl’ Shakes Up Tech Interviews
The Wall Street Journal : Oct 20, 2011
It wasn’t the typical Silicon Valley interview, to say the least. But Ms. Draper—the 27-year-old daughter of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper and granddaughter of venture capitalist Bill Draper—is combining her brand of fizz and rah-rah questions into an expanding Web franchise, just as the region rides the froth of a recent tech boom.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637230232942322.html
Valley Girl on KRON 4 News
KRON4 : Sep 1, 2010
The Valley Girl Show is a fun-spirited, web-based talk show starring Jesse Draper. The show concept is an ‘Ellen Degeneres’ of business with a splash of pink and guests you would only see on Charlie Rose or MSNBC. Featuring interviews with some of the top CEOs and entrepreneurs in the world; past episodes have included guests such as Scott McNealy, founder of S.U.N. Microsystems, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, to name a few.
Read more: http://localshows.kron4.com/LocalShows/MorningNews/TheValleyGirlShow/tabid/226/Default.aspx
Tech show ‘The Valley Girl’ is, like, totally growing in popularity
USA Today : Aug 11, 2010
Think of Jesse Draper as the Sacha Baron Cohen of Silicon Valley. Her web show, The Valley Girl, is gaining a cult following among the digerati. In it, the pink-clad Draper has played golf with Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy and got cable-TV pioneer Ted Turner to sing the theme song of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, a goofy environmental cartoon show he helped create in 1990. “The show is tongue-in-cheek, yes, but it’s about getting to know interesting people well,” says Draper, 26, the daughter of Tim Draper, an influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist. “We’re trying to be the Ellen DeGeneres show of this market.” (Highlights from the show now appear Thursdays on KRON, an independent station in San Francisco.) Despite the hijinks, Draper has attracted a Who’s Who List of tech celebs to her weekly show. During its first two seasons, The Valley Girl has interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy, Craig Newmark, former Cisco Systems CEO John Morgridge. This year is no different. She kicked off Season 3 with a sit-down with Turner on July 28. MC Hammer followed the next week. (A music video that features Hammer and other guests pokes fun at Twitter.\”We hope this turns viral,” Draper says.) Though its monthly audience is relatively small — 7,000 to 10,000 views — it has become must-see TV for many in the startup community. And it has lined up plenty of sponsors, including a law firm, private-accounting firm, Zobmondo’s “Would You Rather?” boardgame, a jeweler and her dad’s VC firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Draper started the show with money she earned from starring on the Nickelodeon show, The Naked Brothers Band. Her dad Tim, who she calls her “No. 1 fan,” has helped introduce her to a few people but the show is all hers. Jesse Draper has used her acting and production experience to run a lean-and-mean operation out of local Starbucks with business partner, Jonathan Polenz. They work with web and production teams to create shows. Draper still keeps a hand in acting. She has a small role in Ticket Out, a drama starring Ray Liotta scheduled for release this year. So, who’s on interview wish list for Season 4? “(Facebook CEO) Mark Zuckerberg, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gates,” the Valley Girl says in rapid order. By Jon Swartz
Meet Jesse Draper, The Valley Girl
Lalawag : Jul 28, 2010
We had the chance recently to catch up via email with Jesse Draper, host of the hit web show, The Valley Girl, and we asked her a few questions about how she got started, what’s going on now, and what the future holds. Enjoy the interview and check out the minisode interview with Ted Turner afterwards!
Read more: http://lalawag.com/2010/07/28/meet-jesse-draper-the-valley-girl/
The Valley Girl Show Kicks Off Third Season
Media Week : Jul 28, 2010
Former Nickelodeon actress Jesse Draper has scored interviews with both The Mouth of the South and the rapper of Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em fame. Jesse Draper, who starred as the nanny on Nickelodeon’s The Naked Brothers Band from 2007 to 2009, is set to kick off the third season of her online talk show The Valley Girl Show. The first episode, which premieres on Thursday (July 29), features an interview with legendary CNN founder Ted Turner. Later this season, the 26-year-old Draper will sit down with famed rapper and Twitter devotee M.C. Hammer, as well as the popular video blogger Sarah Austin and Kai Huang, the founder of RedOctane—whichcreated the enormousely successful gaming franchise Guitar Hero. The offbeat tech/business series Valley Girl is described on its Web site as “like an ‘Ellen Degeneres’ of business with a splash of pink and guests you would only see on Charlie Rose or MSNBC.” Indeed, the well connected Draper, whose father Timothy is venture capitalist Timothy C. Draper and whose aunt Polly appeared on the 1980s drama Thirtysomething, has scored interviews with big names before. Previous seasons have featured sitdowns with Scott McNealy, founder of S.U.N. Microsystems and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Draper and her team have also lined up several sponsors for this season’s Valley Girl, though many are West Coast/Hollywood based. Among the advertisers this season are Christina V Jewelry, the coffee shop chain Prolific Oven, the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, the venture capital firm D.F.J. and the accounting firm GROCO. Take a look at the Ted Turner interview here.
The Valley Girl Premieres Next Week!
Lalawag : Jul 22, 2010
If you’ve never watched Jesse Draper‘s web show, The Valley Girl, you’re definitely missing out. Jesse’s show is a one-of-a-kind new media project that has been featured in the LA Times, San Jose Mercury News and even on NBC’s Press, just to name a few. The Valley Girl is becoming the web-based business version of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, with a flair of color and enthusiasm that only Jesse could bring to her interviews. Some of her past interviews have included Scott McNealy, founder of SUN Microsystems, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, and Eric Schmidt of Google, just to name a few. She’s kicking off this season on July 28th with an interview of none other than media mogul Ted Turner. What kind of questions will she get Turner to answer? You’ll have to tune in to find out! You can view previous episodes as well as catch the new season premiere on The Valley Girl website. In the meantime, check out the season three teaser below: Read more: http://lalawag.com/2010/07/22/the-valley-girl/#ixzz0yIAH22iP
Silicon Alley Insider Articles
Business Insider : Jun 3, 2010
Jesse Draper is an entertainment entrepreneur. As founder and CEO of Valley Girl, Inc., she is known to the business community and new media world as “The Valley Girl” for “The Valley Girl Show” of which she’s the creator, producer and host. She is also a professional actress, most well known for her principle role as the nanny on Nickelodeon’s show, “The Naked Brother’s Band”…
Valley girl’s online talk show is about Silicon Valley
Los Angeles Times : Apr 8, 2010
Jesse Draper is all in pink and so is the set of ‘The Valley Girl Show.’ She drapes her tech-whiz guests, including such luminaries as Google’s Eric Schmidt, in pink boas and plays games with them…
Read more: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/08/business/la-fi-valleygirl8-2010apr08
The Valley Girl on Press:Here
NBC Press:Here : Apr 1, 2010
The episode aired on Sunday, Feb 28, 2010 (2/28/2010) at 09:00 AM. You can read the full transcript from the interview on Press:Here’s website.
Silicon Valley’s elite sits in a pink room
Time Magazine : Aug 12, 2008
his morning The Daily Deal told me that Wallstrip has a little West Coast competition. I don’t know if I’d go that far. Jesse Draper, recent UCLA theater grad, cable TV actress, and, oh yeah, daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper (see, for context: Hotmail, Skype, Baidu), is Valley Girl. This morning The Daily Deal told me that Wallstrip has a little West Coast competition. I don’t know if I’d go that far. Jesse Draper, recent UCLA theater grad, cable TV actress, and, oh yeah, daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper (see, for context: Hotmail, Skype, Baidu), is Valley Girl. This morning The Daily Deal told me that Wallstrip has a little West Coast competition. I don’t know if I’d go that far. Jesse Draper, recent UCLA theater grad, cable TV actress, and, oh yeah, daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper (see, for context: Hotmail, Skype, Baidu), is Valley Girl…
Read more: http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2008/08/12/post_1/
Tim Draper’s Girl Cozies Up to Silicon Valley Moguls
Wired Magazine : Jun 11, 2008
Jesse Draper, daughter of rock star venture capitalist Tim Draper, has scored some high-profile interviews with Silicon Valley movers and shakers for her soon-to-be launched web show “Valley Girl”…
Read more: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2008/06/tim-drapers-gir/
