That&#x27;s the wrong way to look at it.<p>If you look at the pasts of some of the most successful people, you&#x27;ll find at many points that they were &quot;in it for the wrong reasons&quot;. Whatever reasons you find yourself doing something for isn&#x27;t as important as the effectiveness of the actions you&#x27;re taking.<p>I&#x27;ve known plenty of really successful people whose morals I wouldn&#x27;t touch with a ten foot pole. Note I&#x27;m not talking about ethics, you can&#x27;t succeed in business past a certain point without good ethics, startups are way past that point, nobody will deal with you. They were pleasant to deal with professionally, but then start spouting off stupid things about women, what dumb things they were going to do with all their money, things you just have to tune out if you want to make something out of the business relationship.<p>The difference between your&#x27;s and PG&#x27;s assessment is that PG is making a statement directly concerning their ability to run a startup. They literally don&#x27;t know the first thing about what it takes to succeed in that avenue, making something people want. You are assuming it&#x27;s their motivations that cause that ignorance. It&#x27;s not, even the most prestige-hungry kid can grasp that you have to make something people want.