"but the core purpose of these founders is clear – to make boatloads of money." This is false. If someone merely wanted to build wealth there are many options with a higher expected value and higher chance of producing life-changing results.
The stated billion dollar goal has several reasons behind it, the least of which is money. Diving into those reasons one by one could be very interesting; it could expose and analyze our core beliefs (both noble and less-so). Instead the author wasted the chance to do that and left us with something both simplistic and wrong.
The stated billion dollar goal has several reasons behind it, the least of which is money. Diving into those reasons one by one could be very interesting; it could expose and analyze our core beliefs (both noble and less-so). Instead the author wasted the chance to do that and left us with something both simplistic and wrong.