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Over the course of a half-century, the Draper family has carved out a name (and a fortune) in a place where breeding and ancestry are thought to be irrelevant. Now it's time for the debut of the youngest generation. 

Bill Draper's salt-and-pepper eyebrows grow like weeds. They are the one feature on the venture capitalist's handsome, square-jawed 84-year-old face that give away his age; they're also a mark of the Draper gene pool, an optometric family crest. Bill's son, Tim, also a venture capitalist, has similarly unruly patches. And Tim's sons, Adam and Billy, both entrepreneurs, have a tamer twentysomething variation. "Those are some power brows," Adam says of his dad's and granddad's facial hair. "You meet them and you just look at their brows for a little bit--they're like visors."

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