Joel Spolsky recently said[1] that if your whole attitude is "this thing can mak...

ssp on March 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you're applying this cycle: How to Apply to Y C...

Joel Spolsky recently said[1] that if your whole attitude is "this thing can make me rich" as opposed to "this thing needs to exist", then maybe you don't have the passion required to run a startup.

Is that something you select for (or against)?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298470

pg on March 11, 2011 [–]

No. We started our own startup to get rich.