I didn't say he didn't care about money, I just don't think that's his main driver, especially since he's already set for life. He spent 10 years building a company around a genuinely valuable product that just about everyone was using and, yeah, it made him rich.
I think "I'm going to keep the money I made from the company I spent 10 years building" and "I'm not going to lie about the coding tools to try and court a deal with OpenAI" aren't contradictory values. If anything, after hearing him talk for a while, I think it's way more believable that he switched from CC to Codex because Anthropic sent lawyers after him over the ClawdBot name than because of an OpenAI deal.
Having a few hundred thousand doesn't make you greedy, it makes you fortunate.
Having a hundred times that does make you greedy. You had more than enough long before getting to that point. You could have been content with less, so the only reason to try to extract more out of others is greed.
I think "I'm going to keep the money I made from the company I spent 10 years building" and "I'm not going to lie about the coding tools to try and court a deal with OpenAI" aren't contradictory values. If anything, after hearing him talk for a while, I think it's way more believable that he switched from CC to Codex because Anthropic sent lawyers after him over the ClawdBot name than because of an OpenAI deal.