>Few people do startups exclusively because the problem at hand compels them to. I guess this helps answer the mental discomfort I was having w.r.t the wisdom

>Few people do startups exclusively because the problem at hand compels them to. I guess this helps answer the mental discomfort I was having w.r.t the wisdom "do startups when you really care about the problem". But I have heard many founders say that they always wanted to startup as that was what they thought a way to get rich, just yesterday I was listening to Tristan Walker say his starting motivation was to get rich: https://mastersofscale.com/ https://mastersofscale.com/