How Did I Learn to Be a General Manager?

How did I get on the path of being a general manager? Well, actually, there's two stages to this that are valuable. You can either find something good and join it early, or you can persuade someone to let you do it for the first time. When you have a good idea, people are willing to take some risk on you. For example, I had never worked in virtual worlds before; Second Life is most interesting thing currently.