So on January 5, 2010, Travis Kalanick Tweeted in the peculiar shorthand common to the 140-character messaging service: Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a location based service… pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved—ANY TIPS?? Halfway across the country, in Chicago, Illinois, a twenty-seven-year-old General Electric employee named Ryan Graves sent the single most lucrative Tweet in internet history: @KonaTbone heres a tip. email me :) graves.ryan[at]gmail.com.

