[temphn]

  What Silicon Valley does better than anyone is create 
  exits.  They know how to get people who they have made 
  money for to turn over a lot of that money to buy the 
  companies they have invested in. They know how to put on a 
  show to get a company to an IPO. They know how to go out 
  and get hundreds of millions of dollars to bridge companies 
  with 10s of millions in revenues to their IPO and more 
  importantly to make sure the IPO happens.

This is Mark Cuban. He sold Broadcast.com at the height of the dot com bubble for 6 billion dollars. 520,000 users sold to Yahoo for $11,000 apiece.

https://www.quora.com/What-was-Broadcast.com

[adventured]

Pretty sure everyone here knows how Mark Cuban became a billionaire. Who better to speak on the topic accordingly?