My take on the point of some of his (and PGs) essays is to roughly encourage the following set of actions: 1.) Make you uncomfortable staying at your current c

My take on the point of some of his (and PGs) essays is to roughly encourage the following set of actions: 1.) Make you uncomfortable staying at your current cushy FAANG company (or any "cushy" tech job) by encouraging you to work on the weekends with your friends to write a business plan 2.) Convince all of you to leave your comfort zone and quit your day jobs 3.) Apply to accelerators like YCombinator for additional runway and advice from people who have done it 4.) YCombinator can then potentially fund your idea And to be honest it is a win for society to create some discomfort among tech employees to dislodge them and turn them into potential founders as there is probably a significant amount of underutilized tech talent within "cushy" tech companies [1]. So its a triple win if it works out (tech employee who becomes a founder wins, YC wins, society wins). [1] There's probably some aspect of this Google strategy that goes on at lower levels of many tech companies. https://venturebeat.com/2015/05/09/google-has-a-secret-bench-program-that-keeps-execs-at-the-company-even-when-theyre-not-leading-anything/ https://venturebeat.com/2015/05/09/google-has-a-secret-bench...