Not that I necessarily disagree but YouTube, Instagram and Google are bad examples. The first two had founders who were master "politicians" and were already we

Not that I necessarily disagree but YouTube, Instagram and Google are bad examples. The first two had founders who were master "politicians" and were already well connected in the valley. Sergey and Larry were Stanford CS PhD students who merely had to impress their professors with their prototype to get introductions to SV Royalty. Facebook would be a good example though. Zuck did come from Harvard which added credibility and opened some doors but from the beginning FB's traction is what mattered far more than anything else.