Nothing is wrong with wanting to get rich. But there's a lot wrong with wanting to get rich no matter how it harms other people.

Also, I'm not sure I'd call him a Valley success story. Zynga is company number 4. The last three all made him some money without going anywhere. Like the article's author, I think Zynga is on the same path to long-term irrelevance.

Few in the Valley look back on the wreckage of Bubble 1.0 and think of those companies as success stories, however much they enriched their founders.