You're right, and that's because VC is a hits-driven business and none of the founders of major companies (MS/Google/Facebook/Oracle sized companies) have ever

You're right, and that's because VC is a hits-driven business and none of the founders of major companies (MS/Google/Facebook/Oracle sized companies) have ever been in it for the money. If they had, they would have sold their companies when they were worth $100M and sailed off into the sunset. However, on Wall Street, this type of attitude is highly valued -- you want to find the young kid with massive insecurities who wants to have $1 billion and when he gets it will want $10 billion. You give him a desk and tax his earnings.