I wouldn't have chosen the term noble either, but remember there are some non-native English speakers here. Fundamentally, people don't start companies for soc

I wouldn't have chosen the term noble either, but remember there are some non-native English speakers here. Fundamentally, people don't start companies for social status reasons - if anything, social status is the reason not to quit your comfy executive job at a large tech company and instead have to work out of a co-working space. And since your own description of your professional career implies that your startup didn't make you a billionaire, I really don't understand why it was necessary to bring up the "multi-hundred X income multiplier" fallacy.