If you want to change the world significantly, you will need significant numbers of customers, and associated revenue.  Nothing wrong with wanting to change the world.<p>One of the author&#x27;s arguments is that you will dilute your ownership by taking on the &quot;required&quot; investment needed to have a chance at reaching the magic 1B.  Is this true?  Of the 40 mentioned private &gt;1B firms, what fraction raised lots of VC money and experienced significant founder dilution?  My guess is not that many of them; the author simply assumes it is the case.