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What are you are are describing are bad motivations. It’s like wanting a salary when volunteering. One doesn’t actually care about value if the only motivation to create said value is to get obscene amounts of money.



They weren’t creating a company for the “good of mankind”.

Most non profits have plenty of paid staff.

In fact, there is a Ted Talk about non profits and why their employees should get paid well.

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...


> They weren’t creating a company for the “good of mankind”.

I feel most VC blurbs disagree with that, although of course that’s not their actual motivation.

I don’t see how non-profits are relevant other than as examples of companies/organizations that do actually provide value in lieu of massive gains and profit.

And I think you missed my point as I was responding to:

> If you prevent such purchases, you eliminate a major factor in creating the value to begin with.


And you believe what the VCs say?




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