He may actually believe he's doing the world a great service, but surely you don't believe that just because someone is fantastically wealthy relative to the av

He may actually believe he's doing the world a great service, but surely you don't believe that just because someone is fantastically wealthy relative to the average person means they automatically stop doing things for the money? At some point it becomes more like watching your Hacker News karma go up than it has to do with having a real impact in your life, but that doesn't mean the wealthy stop caring about it. In other words... well, sure Myrhvold is wealthy... but he's not Helú, Gates or Buffet wealthy. He's just a chump compared to those guys.