Business media covers venture-backed tech founders at a scale wildly disproportionate to their share of real economic activity -- founders themselves openly say coverage skews toward "tech unicorns or celebrity entrepreneurs" while the vast majority of small and mid-sized businesses that actually create jobs and drive local economies go uncovered. This isn't a neutral gap. Media attention measurably increases a covered company's legitimacy, sales, and access to capital and talent -- meaning the coverage imbalance doesn't just describe unequal attention, it compounds unequal outcomes. And the aspiration effect is real and quantified: a 29-country study found daughters whose mothers visibly pursued careers were 1.21 times more likely to earn higher incomes themselves -- visibility of a real, similar person doing the thing measurably changes whether someone else believes they can do it too. This site published real data two pieces ago showing that owning a dry cleaner or laundromat can out-earn the startup path most of its own coverage still glamorizes. It hadn't yet told the story of a single person who actually did it. It has now: Dave Menz, a former telephone-company lineman with no college degree, was rejected by banks 25 times before buying a failing laundromat off Craigslist for $85,000. He now owns four locations and is worth $3.4 million.