Tech investor who proposed splitting up California is latest to threaten leaving the Bay Area FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Venture capitalist Tim Draper may leave unless the City Council overturns a Planning Commission ruling.Russell Yip / The Chronicle 2012Show MoreShow Less 2of2 Tim Draper of Draper Associates, speaking at a conference in Lisbon, Portugal, wants to add stairs and an elevator to the 1926 building housing his Draper University in San Mateo.Sportsfile via Getty Images 2018Show MoreShow Less Tim Draper, the prominent venture capitalist and early investor in companies including Tesla, Twitch and Theranos, plans to move his university out of San Mateo to either Redwood City or Austin, Texas.