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People start a business first and foremost to profit by way of ROI. People live in homes,one can argue home improvement is improvement of the quality of life f

• odysseas 7y ago
  > People start a business first and foremost to profit by way of ROI. I think that's as pessimistic as saying that people work just to make money. This may have been the case a few decades/centuries ago depending on how lucky you are in terms of where you are born. Today the majority of the founders I know of are not driven out of "ROI" - but instead they are driven out of some personal passion/interest to change/fix some aspect of the world. You can read the various manifesto posts from Paul Graham on the topic from "what we look in founders" http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html to "why founders are kind" (cant find the link...) From my side, my passion is .. I want to dismantle the local-work system that makes people's life/career being determined to a large extent from where they are born. I hate that.
  • cambalache 7y ago
    Come on.
    • mythrwy 7y ago
      Making systems work more efficiently is incredibly rewarding. That there are potential profits in unlocking gains in efficiency makes it even more rewarding.
  • badrabbit 7y ago
    That's fine and all but at the end of the day,unless you're a rich kid playing with money you need to eat ,and take care of your family before changing the world,that is the ROI I meant. If that's not the case then you have messed up priorities.