> All this no-restraint bashing of an interesting article ("you shouldn't have used the 'lions in cages' metaphor! Now I feel terrible! Bghwaaa-waaa-waaa") is r

> All this no-restraint bashing of an interesting article ("you shouldn't have used the 'lions in cages' metaphor! Now I feel terrible! Bghwaaa-waaa-waaa") is really getting on my nerves. Yes, I think Jeff overreacted too :) Anyone would love to get (really) rich, and founders have a lot better chance of that happening than employees do. So people are upset about not having that chance (at least while they're employees). It's natural to feel like founding a startup is just more than you can handle, and maybe that's what's bothering most people. Knowing that them founding something is very unlikely to happen, they insist that working on cool stuff is way more important anyway. Something like the software equivalent of a cure for cancer can only be deemed more important than founding a startup, that's for sure. But what most people seem to be missing is that being a founder doesn't prevent you from doing something noble later on - rich or not.