[throw_pm23]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

[p1esk]

Sam’s ambitions are way beyond “salary”.

[willturman]

It's a quote from Upton Sinclair from an era where you generally had to have a profitable business and employees before you had investors.

[novok]

There were many ventures in the past that got investors without a current profitable going concern. Oil & mining speculation, chartering boat crews to go on exploration expeditions and more.

[Terr_]

Indeed, public investment was born from large projects where any profit would be many years off.

[fragmede]

I know theres this whole joke about being pre-revenue on the Silicon Valley TV show, but getting investors in order to be able to build a business which becomes profitable after goes back a long time. Like a really long time.

[kevinob11]

Replace salary with the thing he wants

[p1esk]

Maybe he wants to make the world a better place?

[throw_pm23]

Maybe :)