> He tells people “he likes building things” because that seems to be a publicly acceptable rationale for building a tech company…but super secretly he just sees starting a tech company as a means to generating an inordinate amount of wealth quickly
I have a hard time believing that anyone who is only fueled by money and does not truly enjoy 'building things' would last all that long starting a company.
I know a great many writers. Not many people get rich writing (if $1 billion tech company exits are black swans, then JK Rowling is like a rainbow swan or something), and yet there are still people who choose to write. They truly enjoy writing, they make their lives work even though they no they're not very likely to end up with a million dollar book deal.
I get the feeling from most of the really great people I've met in the tech world that they would be 'building things' even if it there wasn't the seemingly realistic possibility of millions of dollars. They're not in it for the end game of travel or sex, they're in it because they're only happy 'building things.'
I have a hard time believing that anyone who is only fueled by money and does not truly enjoy 'building things' would last all that long starting a company.
I know a great many writers. Not many people get rich writing (if $1 billion tech company exits are black swans, then JK Rowling is like a rainbow swan or something), and yet there are still people who choose to write. They truly enjoy writing, they make their lives work even though they no they're not very likely to end up with a million dollar book deal.
I get the feeling from most of the really great people I've met in the tech world that they would be 'building things' even if it there wasn't the seemingly realistic possibility of millions of dollars. They're not in it for the end game of travel or sex, they're in it because they're only happy 'building things.'