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I think the author is talking about a very tiny bubble of, not just Silicon Valley, but also further limited to recent grads who are still living the college life and just starting companies.

If you limit your world view to that group then I'm sure it seems like everybody is in it to change the world, and a goal of making money is not noble.

I'm not a part of that group, so I don't really see that at all. Nobody that I personally know has any problem with making money. Not that we're all chasing money either, just that there's certainly no conflicting feelings going on.