I don't think it's at all fair to say he started YC to get rich. His own thoughts about are here: http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html http://www.paulgraham.c

I don't think it's at all fair to say he started YC to get rich. His own thoughts about are here: http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html Whether you believe that or not is up to you, but back then there was no guarantee it would work. To look with hindsight and say it was just greed is easy for you to hurl, but not at all what it looked like at the beginning.