At a startup interview years ago, the hiring manager told me a story, "Once, there was a fisherman with his single fishing boat toiling and netting and gutting

At a startup interview years ago, the hiring manager told me a story, "Once, there was a fisherman with his single fishing boat toiling and netting and gutting his daily haul at sea; then one day, a Silicon Valley VC came on his boat and made a business proposition, 'I can make you a rich man; I can give you a funding to scale your operation so you can hire 40 people with 40 fishing boats to catch more fishes and make more money!' The fisherman laughed, the VC trying to push him with the startup enthusiasm immediately said, "think of all of the money you can make and you can then retire, and think of what you'd be able to do afterwards with that freedom! The fisherman said 'Well, I'd retire to some place close to the coast, buy a fishing boat there and go out to the sea and go fishing.'"