It's all about what makes for "good TV". An economic catastrophe, earthquakes and shootings make for good TV, so you hear a lot about those things. A kid that

It's all about what makes for "good TV". An economic catastrophe, earthquakes and shootings make for good TV, so you hear a lot about those things. A kid that drops out of college, gets VC funding and flips his startup to GOOG for Bazillions also makes for "good TV". An entrepreneur that plugs away creating a small ISV or a team that creates a small SAS site is rather boring, so you're not going to hear about it. That is unless you have a DHH who is willing to throw rocks at the establishment and gather some press that way. DHH writing "F*ck You" in a 72 point font in a Power Point presentation--that's good TV. The guys over at Shoppify make a decent little SaS product, last I heard it was 4 guys working on RoR and were profitable from the first few months. When I watched a RoR presentation by them last year, they said they hosted 25,000 online stores. No one hears about them, however... why? It's just not good TV.