The Mirabilis company is an icon of the Israeli high-tech dream. Its main investor was Yossi Vardi, the “guru” of Israeli high-tech, who graduated from the Technion in 1970. In 1996, Mirabilis was founded by Vardi’s son with three other partners, and its flagship product was ICQ instant messaging software. After two years, the company was sold to AOL for 400 million dollars! This sale defined the “exit” dream for Israeli entrepreneurs and brought about a wave of foreign investments in Israeli startups.