[manquer]

This sounds like it is written by someone who has never started up a company or run a small business or a even lemonade stand in their life . This is equivalent to saying banks shouldn’t lend money to small businesses , businesses need money to survive, the guy having the money and one ready to work it are almost always not the same . it could be VC, the bank or your mom giving you the financing to start that lemonade stand.

Even if the assumption that founders put zero money of their own is true (as others have pointed out it is not, in vast majority of the cases) founders have enormous opportunity, emotional cost, lost salary and the financial hardship.

[MattGaiser]

It completely ignores everything from inventory to cash management from invoices being paid late.