Start-up rags to riches: Super-successful Gabe Leydon was unemployed before starting Machine Zone

There’s a mythology to successful startup leaders, and part of it is that they can’t fail. We lionize successful entrepreneurs, and elevate those with multiple major successes to the status of minor deity: an Elon Musk, a Steve Jobs.

But before the rise, there’s reality. For Gabe Leydon, that was unemployment.