# Internet Gaming Entertainment > [!note] Stub — fill out Virtual-goods company (IGE) co-founded by [[Brock Pierce]] in 2001 to sell game currency and items "mined" in *EverQuest* and *World of Warcraft* for real money. [[Steve Bannon]] raised a ~$60M [[Goldman Sachs]]-led investment in February 2006 and took over as CEO before leaving for Breitbart in 2012. A conceptual precursor to cryptocurrency. Expand.