I think you're overlooking folks who saved more money than they can spend (sanely), and who create companies as a means of containerizing the creation of someth

I think you're overlooking folks who saved more money than they can spend (sanely), and who create companies as a means of containerizing the creation of something else. As an example of this, consider Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize winners in 2020 for Crispr/CAS9, and realize they're entirely financially secure, yet they've taken their science and created multiple startups to bring consequences of their science through regulatory processes to deliver results.