For me, the beguiling aspects of entrepreneurship are financial independence and personal freedom. I can't figure out the author's motivation for writing that

For me, the beguiling aspects of entrepreneurship are financial independence and personal freedom. I can't figure out the author's motivation for writing that piece. If you hire someone and teach them so much about your business that they could go out and start their own (hopefully non-competing), then aren't they more valuable to you? Won't their day-to-day decisions be informed by their knowledge about how they impact your bottom line? As a founder of a company he sounds disingenuous when he says he admires people who want to become part of something larger than themselves. Appreciate, maybe. Admire? I don't think so. Becoming part of a team is great as long as you're not sacrificing what's important to you. They are not mutually exclusive ideas. From the article: "But I think it's incredibly wrongheaded to compete for talented people based on pitching a company as a training ground for someone's individual dreams, as opposed to a place where individuals can't imagine not being — because the product is so important, the values so robust, the culture so engaging" Why is a person's goals antithetical to the health of a company? It's like he's trying to sell us on this antiquated notion that a company's worth is derived from its mission statement and culture. I think it's more realistic to be aware employees have hopes and dreams beyond enriching the company.