WNY Native Is Newest Shark on TV Show ‘Shark Tank’ [VIDEO]

Chris Sacca is now an outspoken billionaire with an impressive resume. He's from Lockport, started taking early classes at University at Buffalo and was a high-profiled executive at Google before quitting to make his own investment firm that has backed Uber + Twitter.

Sacca, 40, landed filming 4 epsiodes for 'Shark Tank', the ABC money investing show. How exactly did he land a gig on the show? Not in the most conventional way. According to USA Today:

By blasting the show in tweets to his 1.6 million followers, only to run into the top producer of the show at a Halloween event last October here in Manhattan Beach, a sleepy Los Angeles surf city of 35,000 residents.