It's very much a matter of who you know. If you're Kdog and work up some software to do payment transactions online, who do you go to to get thee ball rolling, protect the intellectual property, get venture capital for the startup all the while keeping Bill Gates from stealing the idea? You'll be sspinning your wheels for a year then find out somebody else started this kind of biz. Turns out the venture capitalist you pitched to hired a programmer and set it up himself.
On the other hand, if you're Elon, you write your bit of code, tell dad about the idea how it will make money. Dad calls his lawyer, who he has on retainer anyhow. Patents filed immediately. Next call is to another pal who does ventuere capital, enough to get the site up and running. They get a few dozen users, the lawyer call the investment bankers at Goldman to set up an IPO. A year later PayPal has 1M users and Elon never needed a dime of the $34K.
That's how the game works.
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