[AndrewKemendo]

An interesting irony here is that almost every founder I know who started a company that failed outright or went bankrupt were primarily ideologically motivated.

Whereas the successful founders were the ones who chased the bottom line, improve the world is a benefit.

I fall into the first camp, though I got lucky with an acquisition. However it tainted me on startups and business in general actually having the ability to be ideological. At the end of the day people need to get paid, otherwise it's a volunteer organization, and volunteer organizations don't scale.