I met a number of really successful founders who came in just wanting to build a business and found a niche later (sometimes waaay later). I suspect majority of founders with “great ideas” discovered them after the company was started and the great idea they started with wasn’t actually that good

> I don’t trust anyone who has the general, abstract goal of being a “founder”.

The goal isn't abstract - read it as - goal of "not being a wage-slave" and have a shot at being more. It's an ambition type of thing.

To what end though? If you want financial freedom, and you’re smart, you’re likely to be much better off just working in big tech vs trying and almost certainly failing to successfully found a company.

Of course some people win the lottery, but playing the lottery isn’t a sound strategy for a good life.

that's 99.9 of them. the ones with the strong feelings towards ideas most of the time is already post-idea-du-jour narrative